Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous [electronic resource]
Joseph, Manu2018
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On the day that Hindu nationalists and their controversial leader have won a spectacular election victory, a large apartment building collapses in Mumbai. The rescue operation finds a single survivor trapped under a beam. The only person able to reach him is Akhila Iyer, a medical student who is also a notorious prankster. Crawling through the rubble to administer first aid, she finds him mumbling in delirium that a young Muslim couple are on their way to carry out a terror attack. Elsewhere, an intelligence agent, Mukundan, is assigned to shadow two terror suspects, one of whom is the teenager Laila, sweetheart of her street. Time is running out and the chase is on... Pervasive in its comic realism, wicked in its humour and broad-based in its canvas, Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous is a fierce, profound and illuminating portrait of our age of globalisation and populist politics.
Main title:
Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous [electronic resource] / Manu Joseph
Author:
Joseph, Manu, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Myriad Editions, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Manu Joseph is the author of two previous novels, Serious Men (winner of the Hindu Literary Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award) and The Illicit Happiness of Other People (shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the PG Wodehouse Prize for the Best Comic Novel). He lives in Delhi and is a columnist for The Mint Lounge. He used to write the 'Letter from India' column for The International New York Times.
ISBN:
9781912408115
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
360308