Swerving to solitude: letters to Mama

By:

Daruwalla, Keki N

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Simon & Schuster 2018Description: 234ISBN:

9789386797223

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

DAR K

Summary: Seema, married to a Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, voices her dissent during the Emergency, which leads (inevitably) to marital discord and, less predictably, to a new reckoning of her mother’s private history – mama’s feelings for MN Roy, a major leader of the Communist movement in British India and abroad and her struggles to be supportive even after his disenchantment with Communism. Suffused with paradoxes – empathy and arrogance, idealism and compromise, love and disdain, – Keki Daruwalla’s intricate and revealing novel follows the intertwined lives of the spirited and darkly humorous Seema and her unconventional mother. The story moves from India to Canada, from US to Mexico, deftly traversing upheavals from the Russian Revolution to the travails of McCarthyism, in a novel that is intimate, political and extraordinary.

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Seema, married to a Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, voices her dissent during the Emergency, which leads (inevitably) to marital discord and, less predictably, to a new reckoning of her mother’s private history – mama’s feelings for MN Roy, a major leader of the Communist movement in British India and abroad and her struggles to be supportive even after his disenchantment with Communism.
Suffused with paradoxes – empathy and arrogance, idealism and compromise, love and disdain, – Keki Daruwalla’s intricate and revealing novel follows the intertwined lives of the spirited and darkly humorous Seema and her unconventional mother. The story moves from India to Canada, from US to Mexico, deftly traversing upheavals from the Russian Revolution to the travails of McCarthyism, in a novel that is intimate, political and extraordinary.

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