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She will build him a city

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomsbury, London, 2015.Description: 339 pages; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9789384052423
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.92 JHA
Summary: "As night falls in Delhi, a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Now grown up, her child is a puzzle with a million pieces, whom she hopes, through her words and her love, to somehow make whole again. Meanwhile, a young man rides the last train from Rajiv Chowk Station and dreams of murder. In another corner of the city, a newborn wrapped in a blood-red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away. There are twenty million bodies in this city, but the stories of this woman, man, and child are only three. But their stories--of a secret love that blossoms in the shadows of grief, of a corrosive guilt that taints the soul, and of a boy who maps his own destiny--weave in and out of the lives of those around them to form a dazzling kaleidoscope of a novel. Beautiful, beguiling, and audacious, this is the story of a city and its people, of love and horror, of belonging and forgiveness: a powerful and unforgettable tale of modern India."
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Books Books Symbiosis Institute of Business Management - Hyderabad General General Book 823.92 JHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SIBMH-B-3681
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823.920 GOSH What would i tell her @ 13 823.92 HAD The curious incident of the dog in the night-time 823.92 IRV Corpus 823.92 JHA She will build him a city 823.92 LUD The road to Gandolfo and the road to Omaha 823.92 MIS Ancient promises 823.92 MOH Two mothers and other stories

"As night falls in Delhi, a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Now grown up, her child is a puzzle with a million pieces, whom she hopes, through her words and her love, to somehow make whole again. Meanwhile, a young man rides the last train from Rajiv Chowk Station and dreams of murder. In another corner of the city, a newborn wrapped in a blood-red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away. There are twenty million bodies in this city, but the stories of this woman, man, and child are only three. But their stories--of a secret love that blossoms in the shadows of grief, of a corrosive guilt that taints the soul, and of a boy who maps his own destiny--weave in and out of the lives of those around them to form a dazzling kaleidoscope of a novel. Beautiful, beguiling, and audacious, this is the story of a city and its people, of love and horror, of belonging and forgiveness: a powerful and unforgettable tale of modern India."

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