Waiting for Rain: A Novel
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
0143029649
Length
iv+224p., 23cm.
Subjects
Kolkata in the early seventies. The city is besieged by the Naxalite movement, which holds its genteel middle class in a thrall of terror. Caught in the crossfire between the destructive power of the Naxalite insurgency and the brutal backlash of the police force’s counter-attacks, peace-loving citizens don’t know which way to turn. The first post-Independence generation of Bengalis has barely come of age, only to face crippling poverty, unemployment, ...
