Assassin

by K.R. Meera, J. Devika (Translator)

Overview

Late one night in November 2016, Satyapriya, a middle-aged professional living alone in a big city, is attacked by an unidentified assailant. Though she escapes unhurt, a conversation with her paralysed father reveals that this was no random incident but the latest in a series of attempts to kill her. And when he dies unexpectedly soon after, a devastated Satyapriya sets out to unravel the conspiracy coiling around her. Beginning at the height of India's demonetization drive and culminating on the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789356296268
Publisher:	HarperCollins India
Publication date:	08/25/2023
Pages:	664
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Language:	Malayalam

About the Author

K.R. Meera is the author of five novels, six novellas, six collections of short fiction, two novels for children, and two collections of essays in Malayalam. She has been the recipient of numerous literary prizes, such as the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (for best novel and best short fiction).,

J. Devika is a feminist historian, social researcher and translator currently with the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She translates literary writing from Malayalam to English and social science writing from English to Malayalam.

Editorial Reviews

K.R. Meera is easily one of the finest storytellers today, a truth proved once again by her novel Assassin, translated with characteristic ease and panache by J. Devika. Suspense, fear, excitement, revenge, the intelligent pursuit of a murderer that leads to the discovery of a web of deaths, conspiracies and love-tangles: the novel has everything to make it a highly readable narrative. It unravels against the dark political context of demonetization and its many implications, including the calculated impoverishment of those that need money the most. Here is a layered tale that culminates in an unexpected event with deep personal consequences for the first-person narrator while it works as an allegory of our blood-soaked times.' - K. SATCHIDANANDAN

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