Author: Shashi Deshpande
Publisher: Dronequill
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 235
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8190138278
Description
In this psychological thriller Shashi Deshpande demonstrate the versatility of her award winning literary skills.
The suicide of a schoolgirl in an exclusive school is something even the efficient Head Mistress cannot deal with, specially when it is followed by rumours pointing at her brother. Two more deaths follow, making the school a hotbed of fear and suspicion. After an attempted murder, Devayani, the Head Mistress cousin and housekeeper, glimpsing a conspiracy behind it all an knowing it has to be stopped, accepts an invitation to come up and be dead. And then.
REVIEWS
Deshpande's unadorned style refuses to call attention to itself, directing us instead to the inner lives of her characters.
-The New York Times
One of the finest exponents of her craft.
-The Indian Review of Books
Her social value lies…in her attempts to do what has never been attempted in English, her insistence on being read on her own terms.
-The Hindu
Her philosophy…is deeply human.
-Business Standard