Indian Tango-Bpb

Fiction. Translated from the French by Jean Anderson. INDIAN TANGO published in French in 2007 is set in Delhi in 2004 against a background of monsoon rains and the general election that would see Sonia Gandhi briefly head a coalition government. A visiting writer becomes obsessed by Subhadra a woman glimpsed on the street and as this unconventional relationship develops the cost of pursuing passion and desire in a vibrant but deeply conservative society comes into sharp focus. A sometimes bitter always moving meditation on the limitations placed on women's (and others') lives by convention builds inexorably to a powerful and stunning conclusion.