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100			_aJha, Raj Kamal
245			_aThe city and the sea
260			_bPenguin Random House _c2019 _aGurgaon
300			_axv, 266 p. _c23 cm.
365			_b499.00 _cINR _d1.00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn a crumbling neighbourhood in New Delhi, a child waits for a mother to return home from work. And, in parallel, in a snow-swept town in Germany on the Baltic Sea coast a woman, her memory fading, shows up at a deserted hotel. Worlds apart, both embark, in the course of that night, on harrowing journeys through the lost and the missing, the living and the dead, until they meet in an ending that breaks the heart - and holds the promise of putting it back together again. Called the novelist of the newsroom, Raj Kamal Jha cleaves open India's tragedy of violence against women with a powerful story about our complicity in the culture that supports it. This is a book about masculinity - damaging and toxic and yet enduring and entrenched
650			_aEnglish fiction
650			_aViolence against women
650			_aFiction - Women life
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