Mudritha : A Novel

One April thirty-year-old Aniruddhan goes to the police station with a complaint: a woman named Mudritha has disappeared. He has however never met her; only interacted with her on the phone and by email while organizing at her request a tour to Odisha for her and nine others - all women. After preliminary inquiries though the case is likely to be closed for want of progress. But Vanitha the policewoman in charge continues the investigation secretly. What begins as a search for Mudritha soon reveals more about the other women a diverse group who beyond the mundaneness and confines of their everyday existence want to slip away travel and touch the world. Along the way the novel explores women's lives in contemporary Kerala: their desires and ambitions love and anger and their attempts to resist and rise above the encroachment over their bodies and souls.Jissa Jose's Mudritha is thus a compelling portrait of women and the sojourns they make to find themselves - its every surge every swell masterfully captured in this English translation by the award-winning Jayasree Kalathil.