Author: Anjum Hasan
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2007/2
Language: English
Pages: 290
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8189884050
Description
The 1990s. It’s raining in Shillong. Eight-year-old Sophie Das has just realized she is adopted, but there is also the baby kicking inside her mother’s stomach whom she is dying to meet. IAS aspirant Aman Moondy is planning a first-of-its-kind Happening and praying the lovely Concordella will come. College lecturer Firdaus Ansari is going to finish her thesis, have a hard talk with her boyfriend, and then get out.
Poetic, funny, tender and reflective, Lunatic in My Head is a moving portrait of a small town. And of three people joined to each other in an intricate web, determined to break out of their small-town destinies.
REVIEWS & COMMENTS
Haunting, lyrical and daring, bringing fresh air to the stale confines of Indian writing. A deceptively quite portrait of a hill town, it is one of the finest works to have come out of the forgotten territories of the North-East.
- Siddhartha Deb, author of Surface