Ladies Coupe - Softcover

Nair, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141005955 ISBN 13: 9780141005959

Publisher: Penguin, 2001

Synopsis

Meet Akhilandeswari, Akhila for short: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider. Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car - the 'Ladies Coupe' - Akhila asks the five women she is travelling with the question that has been haunting her all her adult life: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete? This wonderfully atmospheric, deliciously warm novel takes the reader into the heart of women's lives in contemporary India, revealing how the dilemmas that women face in their relationships with husbands, mothers, friends, employers and children are the same the world over. (20021018)

About this title

Review:

Introducing a major new Indian writer with a deliciously warm, funny, tender novel about love, marriage and family in India - and everywhere.

Book Description:

'Nair is a powerful writer... She has created what must be one of the most important feminist novels to come out of South Asia' Daily Telegraph.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141005955
• ISBN 13: 9780141005959
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288