Shanti

Author: Vikram Chandra

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  • : 10.00 NZD
  • : 9780571356867
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
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  • : 0.061
  • : October 2019
  • : .5 Centimeters X 11.1 Centimeters X 16 Centimeters
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  • : Vikram Chandra
  • : Faber Stories Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : 1912
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  • : English
  • : 813.6
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Barcode 9780571356867
9780571356867

Description

Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return?


It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman.


Shanti's husband is a fighter pilot missing in Burma. For the past three years she has travelled the country in search of him. In every military hospital she visits she hears a new story, and every time she passes through Leharia she tells one to Shiv. Through stories within stories Chandra tells a spiralling tale of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new.


Borrowing a structure from the Mahabharata, Vikram Chandra tells a spiralling story of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new.