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Lustre
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Penguin Random House
| Author:
SAMAD, ABDUS
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
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Penguin Random House
Author:
SAMAD, ABDUS
Language:
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A heinous crime has been committed-seven girls are brutally gang-raped by a group of upper-caste men. As news quickly spreads, their village comes under the national spotlight; journalists, policemen and ministers filter in, each trying to get to the bottom of the truth and find the culprits. Long oppressed, the girls from the minority community refuse to utter the names of the men; feigning ignorance and burdened by shame, they grapple with notions of honour and purity.
Lustre presents to us the portrait of a society-of a village afflicted by communal strains-as tensions rise with the police force coming under pressure, afraid the villagers will be seduced into joining the local Naxalite movement. As things take a violent turn, the novel offers a glimpse into the true situation in some parts of India as well as the collective psyche of a community-their thoughts on propriety, violence, subjugation, and, most importantly, revolution.
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A heinous crime has been committed-seven girls are brutally gang-raped by a group of upper-caste men. As news quickly spreads, their village comes under the national spotlight; journalists, policemen and ministers filter in, each trying to get to the bottom of the truth and find the culprits. Long oppressed, the girls from the minority community refuse to utter the names of the men; feigning ignorance and burdened by shame, they grapple with notions of honour and purity.
Lustre presents to us the portrait of a society-of a village afflicted by communal strains-as tensions rise with the police force coming under pressure, afraid the villagers will be seduced into joining the local Naxalite movement. As things take a violent turn, the novel offers a glimpse into the true situation in some parts of India as well as the collective psyche of a community-their thoughts on propriety, violence, subjugation, and, most importantly, revolution.
About Author
Abdus Samad is an award-winning Urdu writer and poet. He started writing at the age of fifteen and received numerous awards for his works, which includes eleven novels as well as five collections of short stories. He has won the Sahitya Akademi award, the Bhartiya Basha Parishad, the Ghalib Award and the Life Achievement Award from the Urdu Academy, Bihar. He has also served on the board of the prestigious Jnanpith award.
Dr Syed Anwar Ali is Assistant Professor in the English Department of the College of Applied Studies and Community Service, King Saud University, Riyadh. He was awarded an MPhil (English language) and PhD (English) by the University of Rajasthan. His area of research is translation and translation studies. His previous translation, The Passion Lost; the Beauty Lost, was published in 2014. He also published a collection of short stories titled, Krishan Chander: An English Rendering. His vast teaching experience includes a decade of teaching at Al-Fateh University, Tripoli, Libya, and sixteen years at King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA. He also taught at some government colleges in Rajasthan, India, before moving to Libya.
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