City and the Sea The A Novel

In a crumbling neighbourhood in New Delhi a child waits for a mother to return home from work. And in parallel in a snow-swept town in Germany on the Baltic Sea coast a woman her memory fading shows up at a deserted hotel. Worlds apart both embark in the course of that night on harrowing journeys through the lost and the missing the living and the dead until they meet in an ending that breaks the heart - and holds the promise of putting it back together again.Called the novelist of the newsroom Raj Kamal Jha cleaves open India's tragedy of violence against women with a powerful story about our complicity in the culture that supports it. This is a book about masculinity - damaging and toxic and yet enduring and entrenched - that begs the question What kind of men are our boys growing up to be?