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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
821716904Y
ISBN-13
9798217169047
Edition
Large type / large print
Publisher
Diversified Publishing
Imprint
Random House Large Print
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 5th, 2026
Print length
592 Pages
Weight
578 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.40 x 2.70 cms
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
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AN APALA ADULT FICTION HONOR BOOK • In this fearless novel from the award-winning author of Girls Burn Brighter, a couple from India—so different from generations of white colonialists who came before them—move to Montana, only to discover how brutal and unforgiving hubris can be.
“Rao’s prose is so controlled it feels as if she’s drawing a masterly bow across violin strings.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A powerful statement on race, colonialism and tradition.”—Ms. Magazine
Janavi and Sagar were never meant to end up married. Janavi is a wonderfully independent, young modern Indian woman. She works for an organization that helps street children, often lost to the world of poverty and human trafficking. Sagar is a trained hydraulic engineer, an expert in dam construction. He is the least favorite son, his parents never able to forgive him for an unspeakable act from his past. Sagar seeks refuge in his daydreams of one day finding hidden treasures in the fabled Indian river, the Ganges.
Yet the two are forced together into an arranged marriage which neither of them wants. Even worse, Sagar has already accepted a job in America, in a strange place called Montana, where he will be in charge of dismantling a dam.
Montana upends all their expectations. Sagar''s white colleagues do not welcome him with open arms, and Janavi finds herself unable to forgive her sister back in India, whose betrayal led her to this marriage and this strange place.
When a colleague of Sagar''s is found drowned, Sagar is the obvious scapegoat. But is this death one in a long history of people of color paying the price for the white man''s arrogance and expansionism?
Just like the Ganges river that dominates Sagar''s dreams, throughout the novel run short historical stories of settlers who conquered both the west and India, and who form the foundation upon which Sagar and Janavi stand.
A bold, ambitious, stunningly beautiful yet brutal novel about colonialism, westward expansion, and the ramifications of both still rippling out today, Indian Country is a tour de force modern-day classic.
“Rao’s prose is so controlled it feels as if she’s drawing a masterly bow across violin strings.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A powerful statement on race, colonialism and tradition.”—Ms. Magazine
Janavi and Sagar were never meant to end up married. Janavi is a wonderfully independent, young modern Indian woman. She works for an organization that helps street children, often lost to the world of poverty and human trafficking. Sagar is a trained hydraulic engineer, an expert in dam construction. He is the least favorite son, his parents never able to forgive him for an unspeakable act from his past. Sagar seeks refuge in his daydreams of one day finding hidden treasures in the fabled Indian river, the Ganges.
Yet the two are forced together into an arranged marriage which neither of them wants. Even worse, Sagar has already accepted a job in America, in a strange place called Montana, where he will be in charge of dismantling a dam.
Montana upends all their expectations. Sagar''s white colleagues do not welcome him with open arms, and Janavi finds herself unable to forgive her sister back in India, whose betrayal led her to this marriage and this strange place.
When a colleague of Sagar''s is found drowned, Sagar is the obvious scapegoat. But is this death one in a long history of people of color paying the price for the white man''s arrogance and expansionism?
Just like the Ganges river that dominates Sagar''s dreams, throughout the novel run short historical stories of settlers who conquered both the west and India, and who form the foundation upon which Sagar and Janavi stand.
A bold, ambitious, stunningly beautiful yet brutal novel about colonialism, westward expansion, and the ramifications of both still rippling out today, Indian Country is a tour de force modern-day classic.
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