The story of Tapti Gaina is intimately linked with the lives of two brothers in a narrative that spans eighty years. Exploring caste, student politics, the freedom struggle and the Emergency, Brothers traces the history of the Gaina family, beginning with their village origins across the emerging metropolis of Ajmer and ending in Jaipur. the seat of provincial power. It is a masterful portrayal of aspiration, desire, betrayal and anguish enacted against the shifting terrain of family and community.
MANJU KAPUR'S Difficult Daughters won the Commonwealth Prize for best first novel, Eurasia region. Her other books have been shortlisted for the Encore Award, the Hutch-Crossword prize, the India Plaza Golden Quill Award, and the DSC Prize of South Asian Literature. Her novel Custody was made into one of Balaji Tele's longest-running serials, Yeh Hai Mohabbatein.
Her work has been translated into German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Hebrew, Marathi, Malayalam and Hindi.
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