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Never afraid of taking risks, Saikat Majumdar has taken his place as one the most striking novelists writing today. – SHASHI DESHPANDE  In prose of spare elegance and understated precision, Saikat Majumdar explores an ethical conflict around mentorship, as well as a welter of questions around creative compromise, cultural privilege and entitlement, including the insidious pressures on poets to be ‘snarky and snappy’. Here is a storyteller whose language is writerly yet beautifully unmannered, supple enough to combine irony with gentleness, finely-modulated observation with axiomatic ease.    – ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIUM  A novel of love and friendship, pleasure, pain and jealousy.  – R. RAJ RAO What are the ethical boundaries of friendship and intimacy between a student and a teacher?  Megha, a young writing lecturer in New Jersey struggles to finish her thesis and find full-time employment even as she begins to find underground fame as a poet. Restless and disenchanted, she lets her professor and friends persuade her to take up a position at a new university in Delhi. Moving continents, resettling in the city she knew as a teenager, she discovers that the university is an island of we

Author

Saikat Majumdar

Publisher

Simon & Schuster India

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9789392099274

Subjects

Romance, Education, Fiction