By Anjum Hasan
By Anjum Hasan
$9.70
Print Length
287 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Roli Books
Publication date
1 January 2009
ISBN
9788186939512
Twenty-five-year-old Sophie Das has Moved from Shillong to Bangalore in search of work, fun and liberty.Neti,Neti follows Sophine and her free-spirited friends through offices,pubs, call centres, night streets, shopping malls, rock concerts, and the home of Bangalore's newly rich, as Sophie starts to feel more and more alienated in the money-mad city. A hoirrific murder send her back to her hometown where her hamlet-quoting father and increasingly religious mother are chaisng their dreams. Will sophie be able to pull back from the brink and find herslef a home?
Neti, Neti is one of the first Indian novels to bring to vivid life the situation of a young woman in the big city, and to do so in a way that balances cynicism with wit, warmth with uncertainly, existential doubts with the pulls of the everyday world.
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