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Neti. Neti – Not This, Not This

Anjum Hasan

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Twenty-five-year-old Sophie Das has Moved from Shillong to Bangalore in search of work, fun and liberty.Neti,Neti follows Sophine and her free-spirited friends through offices,pubs, call centres, night streets, shopping malls, rock concerts, and the home of Bangalore's newly rich, as Sophie starts to feel more and more alienated in the money-mad ci...ty. A hoirrific murder send her back to her hometown where her hamlet-quoting father and increasingly religious mother are chaisng their dreams. Will sophie be able to pull back from the brink and find herslef a home?

Neti, Neti is one of the first Indian novels to bring to vivid life the situation of a young woman in the big city, and to do so in a way that balances cynicism with wit, warmth with uncertainly, existential doubts with the pulls of the everyday world.

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Author

  • Anjum Hasan is the author of two novels, The Cosmopolitans and Lunatic in my Head (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award), a collection of short stories, Difficult Pleasures (shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize and the Crossword Book Award), and a book of poetry, Street on the Hill. She lives in Bangalore.

ISBN
9788186939512
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
287
Weight (kg)
0.3
Height (in)
8
Width (in)
5
Subject
Fiction
Published Date
01/10/09
Publisher
Roli Books

Author

  • Anjum Hasan is the author of two novels, The Cosmopolitans and Lunatic in my Head (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award), a collection of short stories, Difficult Pleasures (shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize and the Crossword Book Award), and a book of poetry, Street on the Hill. She lives in Bangalore.

ISBN
9788186939512
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
287
Weight (kg)
0.3
Height (in)
8
Width (in)
5
Subject
Fiction
Published Date
01/10/09
Publisher
Roli Books
SKU: 9788186939512 Categories: ,

Author

  • Anjum Hasan is the author of two novels, The Cosmopolitans and Lunatic in my Head (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award), a collection of short stories, Difficult Pleasures (shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize and the Crossword Book Award), and a book of poetry, Street on the Hill. She lives in Bangalore.

ISBN
9788186939512
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
287
Weight (kg)
0.3
Height (in)
8
Width (in)
5
Subject
Fiction
Published Date
01/10/09
Publisher
Roli Books

Author

  • Anjum Hasan is the author of two novels, The Cosmopolitans and Lunatic in my Head (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award), a collection of short stories, Difficult Pleasures (shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize and the Crossword Book Award), and a book of poetry, Street on the Hill. She lives in Bangalore.

ISBN
9788186939512
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
287
Weight (kg)
0.3
Height (in)
8
Width (in)
5
Subject
Fiction
Published Date
01/10/09
Publisher
Roli Books

Reviews

Published Date:- January 4, 2009

'Clever, pleasant and accessible.' Goteborgsposten

Published Date:- January 8, 2009

'A contemplative tale... I hope that lots of readers will take the time to get to know Sophie Das.' Svenska Dagbladet

Published Date:- January 2, 2009

'A finely crafted story where wry insights and pure moments of humour contrast with some nasty jolts of great realism.' Canberra Times

Published Date:- January 8, 2009

'Hasan is a witty writer and the style is highly engaging, richly descriptive and emotionally astute.' The Sydney Morning Herald

Published Date:- January 7, 2009

'Hasan delivers the bitter truth that for all their suavity, our young Englishspewing motormouths are merely automatons sold on the candyfloss life, the bastard children of globalisation.' Mail Today


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