Mirror of the Darkest Night (HB)
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Author: Mahasweta Devi
Translated by Shamya Dasgupta
9780857424396 | HB | pp. 310 | 2019 | Macmillan Publishers
Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi set in the mid 1800’s, tells the story of a scheming, mercurial courtesan of the Nawab of Awadh.
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It’s the mid-to-late 1800s and the British have banished Wajid Ali Shah–the nawab of Awadh in Lucknow–to Calcutta. To the sound of the soulful melody of the sarangi, the mercurial courtesan Laayl-e Aasman is playing a dangerous game of love, loyalty, deception, and betrayal. Bajrangi and Kundan, bound by their love for each other and for Laayl-e, struggle to keep their balance. Ranging across generations and geography, the scale of Laayl-e’s story sweeps the devil, a crime lord, and many other remarkable characters into a heady mix. Mirror of the Darkest Night is almost an aberration in Mahasweta Devi’s oeuvre. Known for her activism and hard-hitting indictment of social inequalities, she pays close attention to detail in this sparkling novel. It offers a rare glimpse of Devi’s talent for telling the sort of story she normally eschewed–and it’s a cracker of a tale.
Additional information
| Author: | Mahasweta Devi |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780857424396 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 310 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Publisher: | Macmillan Publishers |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
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