Truly infectious GuardianAppa and Amma have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off to their neighbours in Blue Hills housing colony. But their triumph is short lived. Their eldest son Sreenath is behaving strangely, and the reason soon becomes clear: a secretly filmed video of Sreenath and his girlfriend Anita has been posted to a porn site, and nearly everyone they know has seen it.The ensuing war - with Sreenath and Anita on one side and their families on the other - becomes a news sensation, emblematic of a wider generational struggle. The novel is narrated by Sreenaths younger brother, just as eager to rebel against conventional morality. But to keep his family together he will have to compromise his integrity and, in doing so, bring buried tensions between him and his brother to the surface.Full of dark comedy and insight about shame and the online generation, this is a poignant story about now told by a narrator who will beguile and surprise you.
Product Details
Author:
Aravind Jayan
Publisher:
Hachette
SKU:
BK0508293
EAN:
9781788169875
Number Of Pages:
208
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
Release date:
4 May 2023
About Author
Aravind Jayan lives in Bangalore in India. His writing has been published in Out of Print, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Helter Skelter's Anthology IV, and The Hindu, among others. Heis the 2017 winner of the Toto Award for Fiction. He was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2021.
