When the Moon Shines by Day - Softcover

Sahgal, Nayantara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9386702142 ISBN 13: 9789386702142

Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books, 2017

Synopsis

India has changed. Rehana finds her father's books on medieval history have been 'disappeared' from bookstores and libraries. Her young domestic help, Abdul, discovers it is safer to be called Morari Lal in the street, but there is no such pro¬tection from vigilante fury for his Dalit friend, Suraj. Kamlesh, a diplomat and writer, comes up against official wrath for his anti-war views. A bomb goes off at Cyrus Batliwala's gallery on the opening day of an art show.

Presiding over this new world is the Director of Cultural Transformation, whose smiling affability masks a relentless agenda to create a Hindu master race.

In this atmosphere, Rehana and her three book-club friends, Nandini, Aruna and Lily, meet every week to discuss a book one of them has chosen--their oasis of peace amidst the harshness of reality--even as Rehana's German friend, Franz Rohner, haunted by his country's Nazi past, warns her of what is to come. All revolutions, he wryly observes, follow the same path. But is India about to prove him wrong?

In this brilliant, dystopian satire, Nayantara Sahgal draws a telling portrait of our times.

About this title

About the Author:

'Nayantara Sahgal' is the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction, the first of which, 'Prison and Chocolate Cake', an autobiography, was published in 1954. Her works include classic novels such as 'Rich Like Us, Plans for Departure' and 'Lesser Breeds'. She has received the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Sinclair Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She is a Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She has been awarded the Diploma of Honour from the International Order of Volunteers of Peace (Italy), and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Leeds. She returned her Akademi Award in 2015 in protest against the murder by vigilantes of three writers, and the Akademi's silence at the time. She has been a Vice President of the PUCL (People's Union for Civil Liberties) and is engaged in an ongoing protest against the assaults on the freedom of expression and democratic rights.

About this edition

• Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 9386702142
• ISBN 13: 9789386702142
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170