TY  - BOOK
AU  - Razak,Melody
TI  - Moth
SN  - 9781474619240 (paperback)
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London, UK
PB  - Weidenfeld & Nicolson
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Survival
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - India
KW  - Arranged marriage
KW  - College teachers
KW  - Young women
KW  - Delhi
KW  - Delhi (India)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Partition, 1947
KW  - UK & IRL historical fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - 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 to a young man training to be a doctor: Alma is mostly interested in the wedding shoes and in spinning wild stories about evil spirits 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, the wonderful family we have come to love is violently torn apart, and its members - Ma and Bappu, Alma and Roop - are forced to find new and increasingly desperate ways to survive. But the resilience of the human spirit is an extraordinary thing
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