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Leila

by Prayaag Akbar
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Description

In a digitized city, sometime in the near future, as an obsession with purity escalates, walls come up dividing and confining communities. Behind the walls high civic order prevails. In the forgotten spaces between, where garbage gathers and disease festers, Shalini must search for Leila, the daughter she lost one tragic summer sixteen years ago. Skirting surveillance systems and thuggish Repeaters, Shalini—once wealthy, with perhaps a wayward past; now a misfit, pushed to the margins—is propelled only by her search. What follows is a story of longing, faith and most of all loss. With its unflinching gaze on class, privilege and the choices that today confront us and its startling, almost prophetic vision of the world.

What it’s like

ViolenceStandard
HorrorCreepy

Details

First published
2018
Pages
272
Reading time
About 5 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Faber & Faber, Limited
Language
English
ISBN
9780571341337
Series
Standalone

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