Published by
Westland Ltd. & Tranquebar Press April 2009

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Book signing and reading
INDIA

Kolkata 13th April 2009
Oxford Bookstore

Bangalore 15^th May 2009
Crossword Bookstore










 

Delhi
To be announced

 

USA
LA Book Reading
30^th May 2009
Signed copies available

For information email: ushaanandakrishna@gmail.com

Kaveri—devoted daughter and indifferent wife, nominal bank employee and secret fantasist—writes a book published to critical acclaim. Then she begins getting anonymous email… The letters are not threatening as much as insinuating, and an irrationally frightened Kaveri flees from them. A chain of misfortunes follows - the collapse of her marriage, the death of an uncle under mysterious circumstances, the corruption of a cousin... It also brings about the climactic tragedy – the devastation of the one person whose love for her is absolute.
 

Sometimes indomitable, sometimes friable, Kaveri, a woman of considerable (and dangerous) charm, lives not at all wisely. Lies are her stock-in-trade by her own admission, and she lies as glibly to herself as to the world. To her own loss and, as it happens, the destruction of those she loves.
 

Fallout is about love—the kind of unquestioning love 'that has no rhyme or reason, no word or symbol, but just is'. Can any good come of such love? Is it even moral? 

The mood is edgy, sometimes feverish, but enlivened by Kaveri's mordant tongue and underscored by her vivid observation of acts of human frailty and human strength.
 

BOOK SIGNING & READING

 

Kolkata 13th April 2009  Oxford Book Store Park Street.
Bangalore 15th May 2009 at Crossword Bookstore

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