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The bandit queens : a novel
- Title
- The bandit queens : a novel / Parini Shroff.
- Author
- Shroff, Parini
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books, [2023]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-992 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 342 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "A young Indian woman falsely rumored to have killed her husband finds a way to make her unfortunate reputation surprisingly useful--but complications arise when other village women seek her help offing their husbands--in this provocative, razor-sharp debut. "The Bandit Queens heralds a prodigious and sophisticated literary talent." Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of Inland In the five years since her husband's disappearance, Geeta has become accustomed to a solitary life; you'd be surprised how difficult it is to make friends when your entire village believes you're a witch who murdered your husband. And since she can't convince anyone that she didn't murder him, she figures she might as well use her fearsome reputation to protect herself as a woman on her own. But when other women in the village decide that they, too, want to be "self-made" widows and rid themselves of their abusive husbands, Geeta's reputation becomes a double-edged sword--the very thing that's meant to keep her safe is now threatening everything she's built as she unwittingly becomes the go-to consultant for village husband-disposal. Unfortunately, Geeta finds that even the best-laid plans of would-be widows tend to go awry, and the women find themselves caught in a web of their own making--and long-estranged friendships will have to be re-formed if they hope to make it out of their mess alive. Acerbic, insightful, and full of dark humor, Parini Shroff's The Bandit Queens--with its unique combination of poignant social commentary and irreverence--is an absolutely unforgettable novel"--
- Subject
- Widows > Fiction
- Women > India > Social life and customs > Fiction
- Wife abuse > Fiction
- Female friendship > Fiction
- Female friendship
- Missing persons
- Truthfulness and falsehood
- Widows
- Wife abuse
- Women, East Indian
- Women
- Gender identity
- Women's friendships
- Friendships
- Homosociality
- Women > Social life and customs
- India
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Novels.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-992
- ISBN
- 9780593498958
- 059349895X
- 9780593498965 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022004241
- OCLC
- 1313668420
- Author
- Shroff, Parini, author.
- Title
- The bandit queens : a novel / Parini Shroff.
- Publisher
- New York : Ballantine Books, [2023]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Shroff, Parini. Bandit queens. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2023] 9780593498965 (DLC) 2022004242
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-992