The private life of Mrs Sharma

Author/Creator:

Kapur, Ratika, author

Publication/Creation:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

The private life of Mrs Sharma / Ratika Kapur

Variant Titles:

Private life of Mistress Sharma

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

India--Fiction
Delhi (India)--Fiction

Description/Summary

Summary:

Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station. Because while Mrs Sharma may espouse traditional values, India is changing all around her, and it wouldn't be the end of the world if she came out of her shell a little, would it? With equal doses of humour and pathos, The Private Life of Mrs Sharma is a sharp-eyed examination of the clashing of tradition and modernity, from a dramatic new voice in Indian fiction.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

185 pages ; 22 cm

General Note:

Novel.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936606412802486

ISBN:

9789385436185
938543618X
9781408873649
1408873648

OCLC Number:

921867140

Barcode:

010003029034