Sunlight on a Broken Column - Attia Hosain - Zanna

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Sunlight on a Broken Column, Attia Hosain, 1961, India, NOVEL

"...as Anita Desai explains vividly in her brief introduction to this edition, Hosain's work emerges from a richly coloured world that has been swallowed by changing times: the world of the privileged class of taluqdar families, aristocratic landowners, in Lucknow in the early twentieth century. She lived and wrote through Partition and her novel reflects the political and cultural currents in motion during the period..."

(Zanna, review)