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The Witch In The Peepul Tree

Arefa Tehsin

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Description:AWARDS SHORTLISTS:Super-Shortlisted for The Asian Prize for Fiction Longisted for Godrej Literature Live! Best Fiction of the Year Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist: ...the grand house murdermystery transformed utterly by its Udaipur setting and its original, eccentriccharacters.Namita Gokhale, Director of Jaipur Literature Festival names The Witch in thePeepul Tree in Open Magazine Best of 2023 Books: This novel took me bysurprise... I savoured this taut and haunting read.Hindustan Times: Tehsin is a phenomenally talented writer... a wonderfullynuanced read.Udaipur Times: A compulsive read.Swati Roy, Festival Director, Bookaroo: I am speechless... The novel is absolutelyphenomenal.Zai Whitaker, Author and Founder of Madras Crocodile Bank: Arefa Tehsin hasbounced into the world of adult fiction with great panache!Sam Perera, Publisher: Prejudices, superstitions and biases of the powerful andpowerless fill the pages which you turn, hoping the story never ends. In a way, itdoesn't.Bikram Grewal, Author: Vivid, immersive and compelling. A page turner indeed.Madhavan Narayan, Author & Columnist: Some works of fiction tell you moreabout politics and history than textbooks... a crafted work of intrigue and beauty.Ashok Banker, Author (of the bestseller Ramayana Series): ...this kaleidoscopicnovel set in India on one momentous day in 1950.Ranjit Lal, a multi-award winning author: A novel rich in character and place, andclashing timelines.Sayoni Basu, Consultant Editor, Penguin Random House: ...moving andtransformative.It is Makar Sankranti,1950, when sixteen-year-old Sanaz's body is discovered in her father Dada Bhai's house in Bohrawadi, Udaipur. A few of those in and around the house that day are the cruel zamindar Rao sahib of Singhgarh, the devout degenerate Hariharan, the young Bhil Nathu, visiting from a remote tribal village to inform Dada Bhai of a leopard kill, the attractive night soil worker Parijat, and the acerbic widow Sugra, who rolls a rosary and wishes for the jeevti dakkan-the living witch in the peepul tree-to be her secret ally. As the shadows grow long, it becomes clear that something sinister walks the halls of this grand old house. What unfolds is a genre-bending tale of suspense, intrigue and something so much darker.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Witch In The Peepul Tree. To get started finding The Witch In The Peepul Tree, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: AWARDS SHORTLISTS:Super-Shortlisted for The Asian Prize for Fiction Longisted for Godrej Literature Live! Best Fiction of the Year Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist: ...the grand house murdermystery transformed utterly by its Udaipur setting and its original, eccentriccharacters.Namita Gokhale, Director of Jaipur Literature Festival names The Witch in thePeepul Tree in Open Magazine Best of 2023 Books: This novel took me bysurprise... I savoured this taut and haunting read.Hindustan Times: Tehsin is a phenomenally talented writer... a wonderfullynuanced read.Udaipur Times: A compulsive read.Swati Roy, Festival Director, Bookaroo: I am speechless... The novel is absolutelyphenomenal.Zai Whitaker, Author and Founder of Madras Crocodile Bank: Arefa Tehsin hasbounced into the world of adult fiction with great panache!Sam Perera, Publisher: Prejudices, superstitions and biases of the powerful andpowerless fill the pages which you turn, hoping the story never ends. In a way, itdoesn't.Bikram Grewal, Author: Vivid, immersive and compelling. A page turner indeed.Madhavan Narayan, Author & Columnist: Some works of fiction tell you moreabout politics and history than textbooks... a crafted work of intrigue and beauty.Ashok Banker, Author (of the bestseller Ramayana Series): ...this kaleidoscopicnovel set in India on one momentous day in 1950.Ranjit Lal, a multi-award winning author: A novel rich in character and place, andclashing timelines.Sayoni Basu, Consultant Editor, Penguin Random House: ...moving andtransformative.It is Makar Sankranti,1950, when sixteen-year-old Sanaz's body is discovered in her father Dada Bhai's house in Bohrawadi, Udaipur. A few of those in and around the house that day are the cruel zamindar Rao sahib of Singhgarh, the devout degenerate Hariharan, the young Bhil Nathu, visiting from a remote tribal village to inform Dada Bhai of a leopard kill, the attractive night soil worker Parijat, and the acerbic widow Sugra, who rolls a rosary and wishes for the jeevti dakkan-the living witch in the peepul tree-to be her secret ally. As the shadows grow long, it becomes clear that something sinister walks the halls of this grand old house. What unfolds is a genre-bending tale of suspense, intrigue and something so much darker.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Witch In The Peepul Tree. To get started finding The Witch In The Peepul Tree, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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