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15%OFFSarayu Srivatsa - If You Look for Me, I am Not Here - 9781910422144 - 9781910422144
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If You Look for Me, I am Not Here

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Description for If You Look for Me, I am Not Here Paperback. Kalika loses one of her twins at childbirth, a daughter she longs for. Her son survives but loses the love of his mother because he can't be what she wants him to be. An Indian tale of history, religion & gender in a family scarred by its past and struggling with the present. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 600 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 302.
Long Listed for The Asian Man Literature Prize when published in India as THE LAST PRETENCE.When Malika loses her longed-for daughter at birth, it is not the only loss in the family: the surviving twin -a boy - loses the love of his mother. He grows up needing to be the daughter his mother wants, the son his scientist father accepts, and more, with the guilt of being the one who survived. In a recently independent India, haunted by its colonial past and striving to find its identity, he struggles to find his own self. Sarayu Srivatsa has created a ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bluemoose Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Hebden Bridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910422144
SKU
9781910422144
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