Tara Lane English 2006
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ISBN:
9780143062196
Publisher:
Penguin books india pvt ltd
Pages:
176
Weight:
433 g
Dimensions:
13 x 20 x 1 cm
Book Cover:
Paperback
Thema:
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
The Mushtaqs a business family of Bombay are gracious cultured and - above all - upright. As Tahera Mushtaq grows up her staunch loyalty to the family's values is accompanied by a sense of separateness from the real world a sense of living inside a fragile cocoon. In the course of time the cocoon itself begins to disintegrate. Labour troubles undermine the family business and the moral squalor of the outside world comes inexorably closer. As the family's privileged lifestyle is threatened it moves almost without knowing it towards the whisper-thin line where corruption begins...
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