Sakina’s Kiss - Hardcover

Vivek Shanbhag

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9780670098835: Sakina’s Kiss
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0670098833 ISBN 13: 9780670098835
Publisher: Vintage Books, 2023

Synopsis

Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men claiming to have business with his daughter Rekha. He deals with them shortly, only to find his quiet, middle-class life upended by a bewildering set of events over the next few days.

Even as Venkat is hurled into a world of street gangs and murky journalism, we see a parallel narrative unfold of a betrayal and disappearance from long ago. Could there be a connection? Set over four mostly sleepless days, we see Venkat lose grasp of the narrative even as he loses grasp of his wife and daughter.

Exquisitely translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur, Sakina’s Kiss is a delicate, precise meditation on the persistence of old biases—and a rattled masculinity—in India’s changing social and political landscape. Ingeniously crafted, Vivek Shanbhag interrogates the space between truth and perception in this unforgettable foray into the minefield of family life.

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Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0670098833
ISBN 13 
9780670098835
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
194
Rating
  • 3.73 out of 5 stars
    1,479 ratings by Goodreads