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THIS
TIME OF MORNING: A
NOVEL
Nayantara Sahgal
Rs 200 Pb 2000
81-86706-28-3
(Pakistani rights sold. All others available.)
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This
Time of Morning
is set in the early post-Independence years, when
a new republic eagerly looked forward to a future
full of hope. Rakesh, a young foreign service
officer who grew up at a time when young men were
ardent nationalists, returns to Delhi after a
six-year absence to find many changes. He meets
the new Adviser on Foreign Affairs, the controversial
Kalyan Sinha, and is once again drawn to the magnetic
personality of the politician whose ruthless manipulations
are, in a way, a precursor of the moral corruption
in the years to come.
A rivettingly prescient novel.
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NAYANTARA
SAHGAL
daughter of Vijayalakshmi Pandit and niece
of Jawaharlal Nehru, is best known for her eight
novels, her memoir, Prison
and Chocolate Cake, and Relationship:
Extracts from a Correspondence. Her most
recent novel is Lesser
Breeds (2003). |
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