Haunting Bombay

Agarwal, Shilpa

Agarwal, Shilpa / Haunting Bombay
Format: Book - Hardcover
Released: Wed 1 Apr 2009
Catalogue Number: 156947558X

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In her stunning debut novel Shilpa Agarwal takes on the ghosts that bedevil young Pinky Mittal's extended family and dispatches them with rambunctious wit and affection. The result is like finely wrought mirror work, a glittering tapestry of vibrant contradictions, characters, and mysteries. Haunting Bombay flirts deliciously with the true spirit of India. --Aimee Liu, author of Flash House After her mother's death crossing the border from Pakistan to India during Partition, baby Pinky was taken in by her grandmother, Maji, the matriarch of the powerful Mittal family. Now thirteen years old, Pinky lives with her grandmother and her uncle's family in a bungalow on the Malabar Heights in Bombay. While she has never really been accepted by her uncle's family, she has always had Maji's love. One day, as monsoons engulf the city, Pinky opens a mysteriously bolted door, unleashing the ghosts of an infant who drowned shortly before Pinky's arrival and of the nursemaid who cared for the child. Three generations of the Mittal family must struggle to come to terms with their secrets amidst hidden shame, forbidden love, and a call for absolute sacrifice. Shilpa Agarwal was born in Bombay and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Duke University and UCLA and has taught at both UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. As an unpublished novel, Haunting Bombay won a 2003 First Words Literary Prize for South Asian Writers. It is her first novel.

Details:

  • Publisher: CONSORTIUM BOOK SALES & DIST
  • Subject Development: Fiction - Literary
  • Geographic Designator: South & Southeast Asia, India
  • Academic Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
  • Depth (m): 0.032
  • Dewey: 813/.6
  • Height (m): 0.235
  • Pages: 362
  • Physical Format: Hardback
  • Place Of Publication: United States
  • Published Date: Wed 1 Apr 2009
  • Weight (g): 599
  • Width (m): 0.152

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