The Empty Space & The Roof Beneath their Feet by GEETANJALI SHREE

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.<p><b>Geetanjali Shree (Author) </b><br>Author of five novels and five short story collections Geetanjali Shree's work has been translated into English French German Serbian and some Indian languages. She has received and been shortlisted for a number of national and international awards and fellowships and she lives in New Delhi.<br><br>Rahul Soni is an award-winning writer editor and translator. His translations include a selection of Ashok Vajpeyi's poetry A Name for Every Leaf Pankaj Kapur's novella Dopehri and Shrikant Verma's iconic Sahitya Akademi Award winning poetry collection Magadh.</p> In this beautifully crafted novel roofs have a special place; they are meant for wild things for romance and for play they are places to dry pickles and grains while exchanging gossip about quiet caresses. But above all they are realms of freedom. In <i>The Roof Beneath their Feet</i> Chachcho and Lalna use their roofs to build a friendship that transcends time and memory. Suddenly one day Lalna has to leave to return only after Chachcho's passing. Amidst rumors and gossip in the neighborhood Chachcho's nephew tries to piece together his memories of the two women one of whom is his mother. The truth he is searching for could destroy him forever but to not find out is no longer an option. A story of twists and turns <i>The Roof Beneath Their Feet</i> translated from the original Hindi by Rahul Soni is easily one of the best contemporary novels you have read in a long time. This is a tale of the complexity of female desire and the nature of grief. As always the author’s prose is lyrical and her characters are animated. Translated from the Hindi by Rahul Soni<i> The Roof Beneath Their Feet</i> is a reflection of Indian<i> mohallas</i> and the joint families who live there<p>A bomb explodes in a university cafe claiming the lives of nineteen students. The Empty Space begins with the identification of those nineteen dead. The mother who enters the cafe last to identify the nineteenth body brings home her dead eighteen-year-old son packed in a box as well as the of the sole survivor e blast a three-year-old boy who by a strange quirk of fate is found lying in a small empty space alive and breathing.<br><i>The Empty Space</i> chronicles the memories of the boy gone the story of the boy brought home and the<br>cataclysmic crossing of life and death.</p>