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Praise
'a hard-hitting story with the spirit of a thriller and the sheen of literary fiction.'
HANSDA SOWVENDRA SHEKHAR
'[A] novel of deep feeling. Rendered in expert polyphony, it takes a story of helplessness and rage to a conclusion that art can, and must, provide.’
TANUJ SOLANKI
Written in outstanding prose, the novel reminds one of Saadat Hasan Manto as well as Joseph Conrad. In some places, Arundhati Roy rises to speak to you; in others, one hears the voice of Herman Hesse. In expository power, the novel recalls the analytical style of Dostoevsky even as the language of modern cinema comes into play as we see a single character from
contrasting perspectives. A novel written in such modernist form and language is a bravura addition to Indian literature. -- Hindol Bhattacharya, for Desh, 2 May, 2023 (Trans. by Sourav Chattopadhyaya and Sohini Sengupta)
"...a work of fiction that ‘performs’ genre rather than embracing it un-ironically. And what a marvellous performance it is, too." -- Aditya Mani Jha, "Sleepy hollow" India Today 12 June 2023
"Written powerfully in a confluence of poetry and prose, it leaves the reader heartbroken, angry, disturbed even terrified, and yet at the end of it all deeply uplifted." — Paromita Goswami for Kitaab.org
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