Once upon a time / Ashok Srinivasan.

By:

Srinivasan, Ashok

Material type:

TextPublisher: New Delhi : Fourth Estate, 2016Description: 167 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789351777458 (hardback)

Subject(s):

India -- Fiction. -- -- -- --

Summary: Brinda Murty is born and brought up in a traditional joint family in Bangalore, though her life is anything but commonplace. She can recall things that happened before she was born and comes of age in a home where not just time but history has gone haywire. In her teens, she discovers that physical contact with her heals some people, but does not work so well for those she is close to. As the others around her age and decay, she remains young and grows ever more radiantly beautiful. But the price she has to pay is a deepening loneliness. Part fairy tale and part savage reality, Once Upon a Time is a multi-layered narrative from a winner of The Hindu Prize and greatly relevant at the time of a raging debate on the issue of tolerance in Indian society.

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	Fiction	RTC Library Fiction		Fiction		FIC 813.54 SRI					Available			30009189

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""Winner of the Hindu prize 2014""--Cover.

Novel.

Brinda Murty is born and brought up in a traditional joint family in Bangalore, though her life is anything but commonplace. She can recall things that happened before she was born and comes of age in a home where not just time but history has gone haywire. In her teens, she discovers that physical contact with her heals some people, but does not work so well for those she is close to. As the others around her age and decay, she remains young and grows ever more radiantly beautiful. But the price she has to pay is a deepening loneliness. Part fairy tale and part savage reality, Once Upon a Time is a multi-layered narrative from a winner of The Hindu Prize and greatly relevant at the time of a raging debate on the issue of tolerance in Indian society.