The Gospel of Yudas

The Gospel of Yudas is revolutionary literature . . . A story of sufferingredeemed by love--India TodayYoung and impressionable Prema is deeply infatuated with Yudas theenigmatic man who dredges corpses from the bottom of the nearby lake.Longing to be rescued from the tyranny of her father a former policeman whozealously tortured Naxalite rebels during the Emergency Prema dreams ofescape and finds herself drawn to the Naxal political ideology. Convinced thatYudas was one of the inmates at her fathers prison camp Prema believes thatonly he can save her. But Yudas is haunted by secrets of his own and like hisbiblical namesake Judas Iscariot he bears the burden of crushing guilt.Takes its readers through a perfect journey into the hot sticky messygrimy underbelly of human emotion--Hindustan TimesA disquieting book [that mixes] conventional narrative with allegoryhard politics with abstractions about human lives and desires . . .Evocative--ScrollMeeras work is lush in violence and metaphor--Open About the Author K.R. Meera is an award-winning and widely respected writer whose worksinclude the spectacularly acclaimed novel Hangwoman and the short-storycollection Yellow Is the Colour of Longing.