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Panty

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay,

Arunava Sinha (Translator)

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Apr 20, 2019 Nina ( picturetalk321 ) rated it really liked it

Shelves: author-woman, 4-star, a-reviewed, genre-fiction, z-read-2019, genre-litfic, author-ofcolour, world-india, z-challenge-2019-reading-women, genre-novella

A haunting novella of both intensely introspective inner life and fetishistically detailed description of the small things of physical reality. At times the two spheres merge in a kind of magical realism. The chapters are numbered out of order and even rearranging them mentally brings no more chronological clarity. The identities of the nameless main protagonists in Kolkata also remain blurred and dream-like. (view spoiler) ...more

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