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When their traditional business - selling saris - is increasingly sidelined by the new fashion for jeans and stitched
salwar kameez, the Banwari Lal family must adapt. But instead of branching out, the sons remain apprenticed to the struggling shop and the daughters are confined to the family home. As envy and suspicion grip parents and children alike, the need for escape - whether through illicit love or in the making of pickles or the search for education - becomes ever stronger.
Very human and hugely engaging,
Home is a masterful novel of the acts of kindness, compromise and secrecy that lie at the heart of every family.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Family tree
- Joint family
- i: Sisters
- ii: The adopted son
- iii: Birth
- iv: Vicky
- v: Raju, Vicky, and Nisha
- vi: Nisha
- vii: Vicky
- viii: Growing children
- ix: Asha and Vicky
- x: Death in the family
- xi: The daughter returns home
- xii: Ajay’s wedding
- xiii: Nisha enters college
- xiv: The Karol Bagh shop
- xv: The Karol Bagh house
- xvi: The room in Vijay Nagar
- xvii: Discovery
- xviii: Nisha and Suresh
- xix: Skin
- xx: Raju
- xxi: Pooja
- xxii: Infants
- xxiii: Businesswoman
- xxiv: Meeting
- xxv: Nisha’s wedding
- xxvi: A new home
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright