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Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a women's college who lives in her childhood home, where she cares for her mentally challenged brother, Baba. Tara is her younger, unambitious sister, married and with children of her own. Raja is their popular, brilliant, and successful brother. When Tara returns for a visit with Bimla and Baba, old memories and tensions resurface, blending into a domestic drama that leads to beautiful and profound moments of self-understanding.
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"A wonderful novel about silence and music, about the partition of a family as well as a nation."
The New York Times
"A rich, Chekhovian novel by one of the most gifted of contemporary Indian writers."
The New Yorker