In the Country of Deceit
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Author : Shashi Deshpande
9780143067153 | PB | pp. 224 | 2018 | Penguin Books
There are no hostages taken in the country of deceit no victors only scarred lives. This understated yet compassionate examination of the nature of love, loyalty and deception establishes yet again Deshpande’s position as one of India’s most formidable writers of fiction.
Author : Shashi Deshpande
9780143067153 | PB | pp. 224 | 2018 | Penguin Books
There are no hostages taken in the country of deceit no victors only scarred lives. This understated yet compassionate examination of the nature of love, loyalty and deception establishes yet again Deshpande's position as one of India's most formidable writers of fiction.
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Why did I do it? Why did I enter the country of deceit? What took me into it? I hesitate to use the word love, but what other word is there?’ Devayani chooses to live alone in the small town of Rajnur after her parents’ death, ignoring the gently voiced disapproval of her family and friends. Teaching English, creating a garden and making friends with Rani, a former actress who settles in the town with her husband and three children, Devayani’s life is tranquil, imbued with a hard-won independence. Then she meets Ashok Chinappa, Rajnur’s new District Superintendent of Police, and they fall in love despite the fact that Ashok is much older, married, and-as both painfully acknowledge from the very beginning-it is a relationship without a future. Deshpande’s unflinching gaze tracks the suffering, evasions and lies that overtake those caught in the web of subterfuge. There are no hostages taken in the country of deceit no victors only scarred lives. This understated yet compassionate examination of the nature of love, loyalty and deception establishes yet again Deshpande’s position as one of India’s most formidable writers of fiction.
| Author: | Shashi Deshpande |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780143067153 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
About the Author
Shashi Deshpande is an award winning author. Other books by Deshpande - If I Die Today, That Long Silence, Come Up and Be Dead, The Binding Vine, and The Intrusion and Other Stories. She has written short stories, children’s books, and nine novels.
Shashi Deshpande was born in 1938 in Dharwad Karnataka. Her father was the famous Kannada writer Sriranga. She did her final years of school studies in Mumbai, and earned a degree in Economics and then earned a degree in law, in Bangalore. She did a course in Journalism and worked for a very short time for a magazine called Onlooker. She then started to concentrate on writing fiction. Her first short stories collection came out in 1978. Her first full length novel was The Dark Hold No Terrors. Her book, The Long Silence earned her a Sahitya Akademi Award. She has also been awarded the Padma Shri.
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