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Eating Wasps
Eating Wasps
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DETAILS :
- Author : Anita Nair
- Publisher : Context
- Publication Date : 24 September 2018
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 260 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9387578720
- ISBN-13 : 9789387578722
- Item Weight : 450 g
ABOUT THE BOOK
- The novel begins in a small town by the Nila river: a 35-year-old writer, Sreelakshmi, commits suicide and the reason is unknown.
- Fifty-two years later, an antique cupboard in a private resort is opened and a frightened child emerges; this sets off multiple interconnected stories of women.
- The novel tells the lives of ten women from varied castes, classes and backgrounds, each struggling with or resisting the constraints placed on them by society, gender, desire, relationships.
- It deals with serious themes: trauma, abuse (child sexual abuse, acid attack, stalking, cyber-bullying), desire, identity, agency.
- Its structure: not a strictly linear thriller; the narrative loops back, intertwines different women’s stories around Sreelakshmi as a central anchor.
- * It is set in Kerala (India) and uses contemporary references (social media, dating apps, modern technology) to highlight that women’s struggles are both new and old.
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