'Why are you still alive-why didn't you die?'
Years on, Sarita still remembers her mother's bitter words uttered when as a little girl she was unable to save her younger brother from drowning. Now, her mother is dead and Sarita returns to the family home, ostensibly to take care of her father, but in reality to escape the nightmarish brutality her husband inflicts on her every night. In the quiet of her old father's company Sarita reflects on the events of her life: her stultifying small town childhood, her domineering mother, her marriage to the charismatic young poet Mahohar.
- ISBN10 0140145982
- ISBN13 9780140145984
- Publish Date 1 February 2018
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 October 2004
- Publish Country IN
- Publisher Penguin Random House India
- Imprint Penguin
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English