Leila
About this book
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—Leila announces Prayaag Akbar as a remarkable new voice in Indian fiction.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- THE WALL
- TOWERS
- MA AND PAPA
- CENTRE OF HIS PALM
- WATER
- PURITY CAMP
- POLAR NIGHT
- FORBIDDEN FRUIT
- SETTLEMENT
- SAPNA
- THINGS THAT PULL US TOGETHER
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
