IBP Logo
Loading...
New Arrivals
Bestsellers
Recommended
A Flutter in the Colony

A Flutter in the Colony

$23.00
Author:Sandeep Ray
ISBN 13:9789353571016
Binding:Softcover
Language:English
Year:2019
Subject:Language and literature

About the Book

In 1956, the Senguptas travel from Calcutta to rural Malaya to start afresh. In their new hamlet of anonymity, the couple gradually forget past troubles and form new ties. But this second home is not entirely free and gentle. A complex, racially charged society, it is on the brink of independence even as communist insurgents hover on the periphery. How much should a newcomer meddle before it starts to destroy him? Shuttling in time and temper between the rubber plantations of Malaya and the anguish-filled years of pre-Partition Bengal, between the Malayan Emergency and Direct Action Day, between indifference and lust, A Flutter in the Colony is a tender, resonant chronicle of a family struggling to remain together in the twilight of Empire in Asia.