Indian family drama revolving around an ambitious and bright but easily distracted daughter who hasn’t yet heard that her father has died. Fraught, lyrical, set against the backdrop of religious fundamentalism.
The Illuminated
(author)
£20.00
Edition:Hardback978180328977919/01/2023
Categories: 04. New Year 2023: Fiction, Fiction, New Year 2023
Tags: India, South Asia
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