The collector's wife / Mitra Phukan.

By:

Phukan, Mitra, 1953- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi : New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books India in association with Zubaan Books ; Penguin Group (USA), 2005Description: 349 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9788186706831 (pbk.)

Genre/Form:

Fiction.

DDC classification:

23 823 PHU 021177

Summary: This is the story of Rukmini who is married to the District Collector of a small town in Assam, and teaches English literature in the local college. On the surface, her life is settled and safe in the big, beautiful bungalow on the hill above the cremation ground, seemingly untouched by the toil and sufferings of the common folk living 'below'. And yet, each time there is an 'incident' in the district, the fear and uncertainty that grips the town finds a reflection in her own life. Assam is in the grip of insurgency and it is this thread that runs like a dark river through the novel and forms its backdrop.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	823 PHU 021177 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		021177

Novel.

This is the story of Rukmini who is married to the District Collector of a small town in Assam, and teaches English literature in the local college. On the surface, her life is settled and safe in the big, beautiful bungalow on the hill above the cremation ground, seemingly untouched by the toil and sufferings of the common folk living 'below'. And yet, each time there is an 'incident' in the district, the fear and uncertainty that grips the town finds a reflection in her own life. Assam is in the grip of insurgency and it is this thread that runs like a dark river through the novel and forms its backdrop.

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