Description
North-east India, 1945. Tensions are rising, but fourteen-year-old Joya doesn't pay much attention to 'political business' - she is more concerned with doing well at school and having fun with her best friends.
Yet when her father disappears without a trace, Joya's life falls apart. Forced to drop out of school and support her mother by working in a garment factory, she refuses to accept that her father is gone forever, spending her nights sewing him a suit from scraps of fine material.
But as political unrest grows and rumors of corruption spread, Joya questions the true nature of her father's disappearance. And who is the sinister figure known only as the two-tailed snake?
Author: Nod Ghosh
Publisher: Fairlight Books
Published: 09/19/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
ISBN13: 9781914148422
ISBN10: 1914148428
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Political
About the Author
Nod Ghosh was born in Birmingham and currently lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she works as a medical laboratory scientist specializing in the diagnosis of cancers. Her short stories and flash fiction have been widely published in journals and anthologies, and her work has been listed for awards including the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award and the Wallace Arts Trust Alternative Bindings Competition. She has had four previous novellas published: The Crazed Wind (2018), Filthy Sucre (2020), Toy Train (2021) and Throw a Seven (2022).