Talashnama

Talashnama : The Quest By Ismail Darbesh| V. Ramaswamy₹ 699.00 inclusive of all taxesBuy NowOr from your local bookseller.Get notified when the book releases!Notify MeEmail MeXName *Email *Read and agree to the Privacy Policy & Terms of UseSubscribe to our newslettersubmitWe will notify you when the book is released!We will email you when the book is released!Please allow notification and avoid private mode for this feature to work.About the bookFacebookXEmailLinkedInMessengerShareSet in Sadnahati, a Muslim-majority village in West Bengal, Talashnama is the story of Riziya, an educated and headstrong woman with an anguished past. Hounded by a devastating secret, Riziya elopes with her tutor, Suman Nath, a Hindu, although it is Tahirul – the local Imam torn between duty and desire – who is her true love. On the day she leaves, she allegedly writes anti-Islamic graffiti on the wall of the village mosque – an incident that both baffles and enrages the villagers. Ten years later, Suman Nath takes his own life, and Riziya must return to a Sadnahati fraught with disapproval and condemnation… Ismail Darbesh’s debut novel, Talashnama, is a thrilling literary tour de force, where love, religion, modernity and politics collide. A bestseller in the original Bangla and translated brilliantly by V. Ramaswamy, it is also an evocative inquiry into the uncertainties and challenges of being Muslim in today’s India.Pages: 572Available in: PaperbackLanguage: EnglishTAGSComing SoonFiction