Undertow & That Long Silence

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.Jay's life comes apart at the seams when her husband is asked to leave his job while allegations of business malpractice against him are investigated. Her familiar existence disrupted her husband's reputation in question and their future as a family in jeopardy Jaya a failed writer is haunted by memories of the past. Differences with her husband frustrations in their seventeen-year-old marriage disappointment in her two teenage children the claustrophobia of her childhood and mdash all begin to surface. In her small suburban Bombay flat Jaya grapples with these and other truths about herself and mdash among them her failure at writing and her fear of anger. Shashi Deshpande gives us an exceptionally accomplished portrayal of a woman trying to erase a 'long silence' begun in childhood and rooted in her and in the constraints of her life. About the Author Shashi Deshpande daughter of the renowned Kannada dramatist and Sanskrit scholar Shriranga was born in Dharwad. At the age of fifteen she went to Mumbai graduated in economics then moved to Bangalore where she gained a degree in law. Her writing career began in earnest only in 1970 initially with short stories of which several volumes have been published. She is the author of four children`s books and seven previous novels the best known of which are The Dark Holds No Terror That Long Silence which won the Sahitya Akademi award and Small Remedies.Loya is twenty-five: solitary sincere with restless stirrings in her heart. In an uncharacteristic move she sets off on an unexpected journey away from her mother Rukmini and her home in Bengaluru to distant misty Assam. She comes looking for her beloved Asian elephant Elephas maximus but also seeks someone else-her grandfather Torun Ram Goswami someone she has never met before. She arrives at the Yellow House on the banks of the Brahmaputra where Torun lives not knowing that her life is about to change. Twenty-five years ago Rukmini had been cast out of the family home by her mother the formidable and charismatic Usha while Torun watched silently. Loya now seeks answers both from him and from the place that her mother once called home. In her quest she finds an understanding not only of herself and her life but also of the precarious bonds that tie people together.A delicate poignant portrait of family and all that it contains Undertow becomes in the hands of this gifted writer an exploration of much more: home and the outside world the insider and the outsider and the ever-evolving nature of love itself. Review 'A dazzling coming-of-age novel that is disquieting and heartening at once. Undertow is a powerful tale of love andloss and Barua weaves magic with her spellbinding prose and splendid craft' -- ANEES SALIMJahnavi Barua'sUndertow weaves threads of displacement kinship and politics into a layered novel. -- ScrollRead this novel for a fierce sense of place. -- MintInUndertow Jahnavi Barua explores the fine web of human lives with a deft touch. -- The Hindu About the Author Jahnavi Barua is a writer based in Bengaluru. Her first bookNext Door a collection of short fiction was publushed by Penguin India in 2008 to wide critical acclaim. The second a novelRebirth was published in 2010 and shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize.Undertow is her third book. She was awarded the Charles Wallace Trust fellowship for creative writing in 2006. Her books are on the syllabi of many universities and her short fiction has been widely anthologized.