She Will Build Him a City - Hardcover

Jha, Raj Kamal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408855046 ISBN 13: 9781408855041

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2015

Synopsis

Violence, sex, poverty, love, longing, new money and new cities all come together in this breathtaking, magical novel by the prize-winning author of 'The Blue Bedspread'.

As night falls in Delhi a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Her now grown-up child is a puzzle with a million pieces whom she hopes, through her words and her love, to somehow make whole again.

Meanwhile, as the last train from Rajiv Chowk Station pulls away, a young man rides the metro and dreams of murder.

In another corner of the city, a newborn wrapped in a blood-red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away.

About this title

About the Author

Raj Kamal Jha is Chief Editor of The Indian Express which has won the International Press Institute's India Award for Excellence in Journalism three times. His novels include The Blue Bedspread, winner of the 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia) and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; If You Are Afraid of Heights, a finalist for the Hutch-Crossword Book Award in 2003; and Fireproof, rated first in CNN-IBN's list of best books published in India in 2006. His novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Raj works in New Delhi and lives in Gurgaon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408855046
• ISBN 13: 9781408855041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352