A Partial Woman

Author: Mina Singh
Publisher: Kali/Zubaan
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 249
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185107971

Description

An unusual story of a young woman who attempts to become pregnant through the intercession of her husband's mystical powers. Lonely and frustrated, she escapes to her parents' home and is drawn into a relationship with her cousin's husband. Thereafter the saga of her life unfolds rapidly and swe see her, a woman before her time, transiting both the end of the century and the end of her marriage against the backdrop of a turbulent history.

How she resolves the many conundrums of her situation is at the heart of this unusually wrought and bold novel.