The Hills of Angheri

The Hills of Angheri

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Author: Kavery Nambisan
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 393
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143032712

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For as long as Nalli can remember, the guardians of her village of Angheri, the hills that have so often come alive in her grandfather’s stories, have been asking her to do something with her life.

Twelve-year-old Nalli is restless to pursue a dream rather unusual for a girl in her traditional society: she wants to be a doctor. After all, how else will she stand by Jai-her friend and hero-when he returns as a qualified surgeon to start Angheri’s very own hospital?

Adamantly resisting all the objections her family raises, Nalli travels to Madras and then to London to study, and experiences a world she had never imagined. She learns to keep her voice down and sit with her knees together, is haunted by Subbu, the first human cadaver she cuts up, and encounters complicated medical cases that test her faith in the values Appa taught her to live by and her own skills as a surgeon. Yet, for all her adventures, Nalli yearns constantly for a sight of Angheri’s hills, for Ajja’s gods and Appa’s advice, and, most of all, for the hospital of her dreams to become a reality. But her return home is fraught with heartbreak and disillusion, and Nalli sets off again, this time to remote Keshavganj, in search of solace and the fulfilment of her heart’s desire.

Sensitive and humorous, graceful and invariably engaging, Kavery Nambisan’s latest novel tells the story of a young surgeon coming to terms with the untidiness of life and her profession.

PRAISE FOR KAVEY NAMBISAN

After what seems an eon, I have encountered such, imagination and power of words, Simple yet poetic, understated yet charged.
-Biblio

Nambisan has a gift that cannot come with practice-the art of emphatizing with her characters; they stay with you long after you’ve finished the book.
-Business Standard

Nambisan’s gift lies in the fact that she is able to weld individual lives with the universes of which they are a part.
-Sunday