Moth / Melody Razak.
Publication details: London, UK : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021.Description: 346 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781474619240 (paperback)
- Intellectuals -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- India -- Fiction
- Arranged marriage -- India -- Fiction
- College teachers -- India -- Fiction
- Families -- India -- Fiction
- Young women -- India -- Fiction
- Families -- India -- Delhi -- Fiction
- Delhi (India) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- India -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Fiction
- UK & IRL historical fiction
- 823.92 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | RAZ | Available | 063585 |
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...