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The Binding Vine
The New Novel From The Bestselling Author Of That Long Silence The Narrator In The Binding Vine Is The Clever, Sharp-Tongued Urmi, Grieving Over The Death Of Her Baby Daughter And Surrounded By, But Rebuffing, The Care Of Her Mother And Her Childhood Friend, Vanaa. Instead, She Becomes Caught Up In The Discovery Of Her Long-Dead Mother-In-Law'S Poetry, Written When She Was A Young Woman Subjected To Rape In Her Marriage; And In Kalpana, A Young Woman Hanging Between Life And Death In A Hospital Ward, Also The Victim Of Rape. Yet, In This Web Of Loss And Despair Are The Glimmerings Of Hope. Shashi Deshpande Explores With Acuity And Compassion The Redemptive Powers Of Love.
Dark Holds No Terrors
Why are you still alive-why didn't you die?' Years on, Sarita still remembers her mother's bitter words uttered when as a little girl she was unable to save her younger brother from drowning. Now, her mother is dead and Sarita returns to the family home, ostensibly to take care of her father, but in reality to escape the nightmarish brutality her husband inflicts on her every night. In the quiet of her old father's company Sarita reflects on the events of her life: her stultifying small town childhood, her domineering mother, her marriage to the charismatic young poet Mahohar.
That Long Silence
Jay'S Life Comes Apart At The Seams When Her Husband Is Asked To Leave His Job While Allegations Of Business Malpractice Against Him Are Investigated. Her Familiar Existence Disrupted, Her Husband'S Reputation In Question And Their Future As A Family In Jeopardy, Jaya, A Failed Writer, Is Haunted By Memories Of The Past. Differences With Her Husband, Frustrations In Their Seventeen-Year-Old Marriage, Disappointment In Her Two Teenage Children, The Claustrophia Of Her Childhood&Amp;Mdash;All Begin To Surface. In Her Small Suburban Bombay Flat, Jaya Grapples With These And Other Truths About Herself&Amp;Mdash;Among Them Her Failure At Writing And Her Fear Of Anger. Shashi Deshpande Gives Us An Exceptionally Accomplished Portrayal Of A Woman Trying To Erase A 'Long Silence' Begun In Childhood And Rooted In Herself And In The Constraints Of Her Life.