Mistress

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When travel writer Christopher Stewart arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala to meet Koman, Radhaâ€™s uncle and a famous kathakali dancer, he enters a world of masks and repressed emotions. From their first meeting, both Radha and her uncle are drawn to the enigmatic young man with his cello and his incessant questions about the past. The triangle quickly excludes Shyam, Radhaâ€™s husband, who can only watch helplessly as she embraces Chris with a passion that he has never been able to draw from her. Also playing the role of observer-participant is Koman; his life story, as it unfolds, captures all the nuances and contradictions of the relationships being made-and unmade-in front of his eyes. A brilliant blend of imaginative story-telling and deeply moving explorations into the search for meaning in art and life, Mistress is a literary tour de force from one of Indiaâ€™s most exciting writers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anita Nair

Anita Nair, was working as the creative director of an advertising agency in Bangalore when she wrote her first book, a collection of short stories called Satyr of the Subway. The book which won her a fellowship from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts was followed by her second book The Better Man, published by Penguin India, and was also the first book by an Indian author to be published by Picador USA. Her third book, Ladies Coupe, which was rated as one of 2002's top five books of the year, has been translated into more than twenty-five languages around the world, She has also written The Puffin Book of World Myths and Legends which is the first of a two-part series of books for children on myths and legends and has edited Where the Rain is Born: Writings About Kerala. Anita lives in Bangalore and Mundakotukurussi, Kerala.