The Yogini by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay
Winner of an English PEN award. With her days split between a passionate marriage and a high-octane television studio job, Homi is a thoroughly modern young woman - until one day she is approached by a yogi in the street. Convinced that the yogi is a manifestation of fate, Homi embarks on a series of increasingly desperate attempts to prove that her life is ruled by her own free will, much to the alarm of her no-nonsense husband and cattily snobbish mother. Her middle-class Kolkata life, and the relationships that define her identity, are disturbed to the point of disintegration. Following the inexorable pull of tradition, Homi ends up in Benaras, the holy city on the banks of the Ganga, where her final battle with fate plays out. The new novel by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a brilliant portrait of a young millennial in contemporary India who is torn between her modern life and tradition. Bandyopadhyay's unflinching look at sex, work and family redefines comfortable notions of what the life of young women is supposed to look like.
Praise for Panty: `An unnerving, ominous and beautiful meditation on the loneliness of modern life’ — The Guardian. Praise for Abandon: `Abandon is a bold, important and formidable novel about the demands of life and the responsibilities we have, both to others and to ourselves.’ — Lucy Scholes, The National
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is the author of Panty, Abandon and The Yogini. She has written nine novels and over fifty short stories since her controversial debut Shankini was first published in Bengali in 2006. Also a newspaper columnist and film critic, Sangeeta is based in Kolkata.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911284277 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911284274 |
| Title | The Yogini |
| Author | Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Tilted Axis Press |
| Year published | 2019-07-25 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
| Prizes | Winner of English Pen Award 2019 |
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