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Moth: One of the Observer's 'Ten Debut Novelists' of 2021

Moth: One of the Observer's 'Ten Debut Novelists' of 2021

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Observer's 'Ten Debut Novelists' of 2021 Harper's Bazaar's 'Five Debut Female Authors to Read This Summer' 'Powerful and heartbreaking' Observer 'Gripping... Razak painstakingly paints a portrait of a family; their rituals, their private languages, their shared lives' The Times 'Both a heartbreaking and heart-warming story, Melody Razak's debut transports the reader into the home of a Brahmin family in 1940s Delhi... The character portrayal is so intricate that as the plot twists and turns, you'll truly care what happens to them' Independent 'Assured and powerful' Harper's Bazaar 'One of the best debuts I've ever read. It made my heart swell' Sarah Winman, author of Tin Man and Still Life 'A stunning, powerful work by a brave new voice in British fiction' Anna Hope, author of Expectation 'Powerful and moving... Every character springs from the page' Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures Delhi, 1946 Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old daughter - precocious, headstrong Alma - is soon to be married: Alma is mostly interested in the wedding shoes and in spinning wild stories for her beloved younger sister Roop, a restless child obsessed with death. Times are bad for girls in India. The long-awaited independence from British rule is heralding a new era of hope, but also of anger and distrust. Political unrest is brewing, threatening to unravel the rich tapestry of Delhi - a city where different cultures, religions and traditions have co-existed for centuries. When Partition happens and the British Raj is fractured overnight, this wonderful family is violently torn apart, and its members are forced to find increasingly desperate ways to survive. But the resilience of the human spirit is an extraordinary thing... MEET THE FAMILY AT THE HEART OF MOTH: Alma: the beating heart of the novel. We meet her as a precocious 14-year old who becomes entangled with the chaos of Partition with devastating consequences Roop: Alma's younger sister. Obsessed with death, she is a fierce, funny and rather wild child trying to make sense of the destruction that has befallen her family Ma and Bappu: their dream of an independent India collapses under the weight of History. Ma's experience mirrors that of the many Indian women who were hoping for new freedom under an independent India - and had to face more harassment and insecurity instead And many more: the Muslim nanny, forced to hide in a water tank; the widowed house-keeper whose mission is to keep the family together; the old grandmother, obsessed with the family's honour and determined to preserve it no matter the cost...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781474619233
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 549 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1474619231
  • Publisher Date: 24 Jun 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: One of the Observer's 'Ten Debut Novelists' of 2021
  • Width: 156 mm


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