Hounded by a devastating secret, Riziya elopes with her tutor, Suman Nath, a Hindu, although it is Tahirul - the local Imam torn between duty and desire - who is her true love. On the day she leaves, she allegedly writes anti-Islamic graffiti on the wall of the village mosque - an incident that both baffles and enrages the villagers.
Ten years later, Suman Nath takes his own life, and Riziya must return to a Sadnahati fraught with disapproval and condemnation.Ismail Darbesh''s debut novel, Talashnama, is a thrilling literary tour de force, where love, religion, modernity and politics collide. A bestseller in the original Bangla and translated brilliantly by V.
Ramaswamy, it is also an evocative inquiry into the uncertainties and challenges of being Muslim in today''s India..
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
572 sidor |
Språk |
ben |
Förlag |
HarperCollins India |
Utgivningsdatum |
2024-06-24 |
ISBN |
9789354898952 |