Anita Nair: A Cut-Like Wound, Kartoniert / Broschiert
A Cut-Like Wound
- Publisher:
- Bitter Lemon Press, 07/2014
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781908524362
- Item number:
- 3483834
- Volume:
- 365 Pages
- Weight:
- 339 g
- Format:
- 195 x 126 mm
- Thickness:
- 30 mm
- Release date:
- 8.7.2014
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
"Nair writes big, brave descriptions of one brutal murder after the next, relentlessly describing each death even as sub-inspector Santosh loses his breakfast over them."---Time Out
It's the first day of Ramadan in heat-soaked Bangalore. A young man begins to dress: makeup, a sari, and expensive pearl earrings. Before the mirror he is transformed into Bhuvana. She is a hijra, a transgender seeking love in the bazaars of the city.
What Bhuvana wants, she nearly gets: a passing man is attracted to this elusive young woman---but someone points out that Bhuvana is no woman. For that, the interloper's throat is cut. A case for Inspector Borei Gowda, going to seed, and at odds with those around him including his wife, his colleagues, even the informers he must deal with. More corpses and Urmila, Gowda's ex-flame, are added to this spicy concoction of a mystery novel.
Most intriguing is the grim world of Bhuvana. Her hijra fantasies, emotions, and hopes are etched in a way that is chilling yet oddly touching. Some mysteries remain till almost the end, for instance Bhuvana's connection with the wealthy, corrupt Corporator Ravikumar, who lives in a mansion as grand as the Mysore Palace and controls whole districts of Bangalore.
Anita Nair lives in Bangalore and is a prize-winning author. Her novel Ladies Coupe, published in the United States by St. Martin's Press, is a feminist classic which has been translated in thirty languages all over the world. This is her first crime novel.
Biography
Anita Nair lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihrem Sohn in Bangalore. Geboren und aufgewachsen in Shoranur in der Provinz Kerala, studierte sie englische Sprache und Literatur und lebte danach eine Zeit lang in den USA, bevor sie nach Indien zurückkehrte. Sie arbeitete zunächst als Journalistin, veröffentlichte 1997 ihren ersten Erzählungsband und 2000 ihren ersten Roman. Neben ihrer schriftstellerischen Tätigkeit arbeitet Anita Nair als Werbetexterin.
