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Notes on a Marriage
Paperback
ISBN13: 9789354477096
Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
Published: Jan 20 2024
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In his younger days, Alfred Hughes had been quite the Nineties revolutionary at
his university in England, clad in faded army fatigues and smoking Cuban cigars.
They called him Ché Freddo. His comrades-in-arms were Nido-Nitin-son
of divorced Indian immigrants, and Eugenia-ardent admirer of Sylvia Plath,
who believed that one had to sacrifice everything for a cause, be fearless in
death. Into this mix came Anju Kale, of British-Asian heritage, the only child of a
disheartened Indian Marxist father and a submissive, but wealthy, English mother,
and her entry into this tightly-knit group caused all equations to shift and change.
As time goes by, Freddo gives up revolution for the security of a college
professorship, Nido for a job at Goldman Sachs. Anju marries Freddo and tries
to come to terms with his serial philandering, in a marriage precariously held
together by middle-class sensibilities. And the devastating secret about what
happened to Eugenia.
Until Anju too finds herself caught in an extra-marital relationship. Trapped
between the need for fulfilment and a love of stability, Anju must redefine what it
means to be a family.
In prose that is lyrical and beguiling, Selma Carvalho weaves a story about a
marriage that is tender, startling and wise in turn.
This masterful work from the author of the remarkable fiction debut, Sisterhood of
Swans, confirms Carvalho's place in the literary firmament.
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