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Leila
Leila | Prayaag Akbar
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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, Shalinionce wealthy, with perhaps a wayward past; now a misfit, pushed to the marginsis 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 usand its startling, almost prophetic vision of the worldLeila announces Prayaag Akbar as a remarkable new voice in Indian fiction.
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Abailliekaras
Abailliekaras
Leila | Prayaag Akbar
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My #bookhaul from the Jaipur Lit Festival in Adelaide today. So restrained. Jason the bookseller: ‘I don‘t think I‘ve ever seen you buy just one book before.‘ 🤦🏼‍♀️😉

Tanisha_A Oh wow! Good to know you attended it there. How was it? I have been attending it here in Jaipur since a few years. Looking forward to the Jan 2019 edition. 6y
Tanisha_A *Jaipur, India 6y
Rissreads I bought this book a few months ago and haven‘t got to it yet 6y
LeeRHarry I‘ve wanted to go to the Jaipur Festival in India for ages @Tanisha_A - and I had no idea about the one in Adelaide which is closer! 😊 6y
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Vansa
Vansa
Leila | Prayaag Akbar
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Though it isn't explicitly stated, this is what Bombay is like today! People from a particular community choose to stay in the same areas. You have parts of the city that are identified only with people of a particular region or community. Freedom of movement isn't restricted though !! ( yet )

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Vansa
Vansa
Leila | Prayaag Akbar
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Terrifying. If the current situation in India was exaggerated to the hilt, this is where we would end up. Even now, my husband and I found it so difficult to rent a house in Bombay, because he's a non vegetarian and I have a Christian surname and minority religions are automatically viewed with suspicion.

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theshrinkette
theshrinkette
Leila | Prayaag Akbar
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My first attempt at spine poetry. #spinepoetry #24in48

Leila,
Do not say we having nothing.
The ministry of utmost happiness
(and) the liberation of Sita,
(happen in) no other world.

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theshrinkette
theshrinkette
Leila | Prayaag Akbar
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Holy shit this book gives Atwood a run for her money. Utterly terrifying. #24in48

ReadingEnvy The description also reminds me of
[tagged book]Totem
7y
Gezemice Intriguing. Must check it out! 7y
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theshrinkette
theshrinkette
Leila | Prayaag Akbar
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Seriously, what is a readathon without cookies? #snacks #24in48

Captivatedbybooks Ooo those look good 7y
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