About The Novel
The stories of three different women, separate yet linked, are knit together in this excellent first novel.
When Devi returns to Madras to live with her widowed mother, Sita, she finds that her student years in America have not prepared her for a future in India. In the house by the sea, tradition and the old order of things reclaim her as surely as it did Sita; and Devi is sucked back into a maternal love which is only able to arrange a suitable marriage for her...
Devi's marriage is not one she expects much from; and, as she discovers through the eyes of Mayamma, the old family retainer in the house she has married into, the key to marriage is the ability to endure-and go on...
Through the stories of Devi, Sita and Mayamma, The Thousand Faces of Night brings alive the under-world of Indian women's lives-where most dreams are thwarted and the only only constant is survival.
About The Author
Githa Hariharan's stories have been published in several anthologies and magazines in India and elsewhere. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night (1992) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. She has published another novel, The Ghosts of Vasu Master (1994), and edited A Southern Harvest, a volume of stories in English translation from four major South Indian languages.
Githa Hariharan lives in New Delhi.
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