This city is historic and magnificent but also unrelenting in its oppression of certain characters. It coloured the book’s description of Dehli, India. How gorgeous is the Urdu version of the book?Ĭoupled with this evocative imagery, the narrative is also littered with Urdu in italics. Anjum is mercurial and cruel due to the rejection she has faced, but shows an almost maternal tenderness to other societal pariahs and her adoptive daughter, Zainab. This extended metaphor is describing Anjum – previously known as Aftab – one of the heroines of the novel. An example from the first chapter: “When people called her names – clowns without circus, queen without palace – she let the hurt blow through her branches like a breeze and used the music of her rustling leaves as balm to ease the pain.” Roy dedicates her book to ‘The Unconsoled’ on the very first page.
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