Name: A Cut-Like Wound
Author: Anita Nair
ISBN: 9781908524379

This is Anita Nair’s first crime novel. Inspector Gowda is a fascinating character, a Rebus in love with someone else’s woman. It was published in India in 2013.
A story set in an exotic location in a fascinating social context: the underbelly of Bangalore is lovingly and revealingly depicted, with its startling scenes of ritual worship and lively transgenders known as hijras.
Hijras are men wanting to be women, most of them eunuchs, outcasts and persecuted, often seen begging or working as prostitutes, yet also hired as entertainers at weddings and other ceremonies as they have a reputation for bringing luck and fertility.
‘Cut Like Wound’ is a tightly plotted mystery set in an exotic world, but also a love story that unravels the repercussions of a boy’s fractured childhood.
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Anita is currently writing a second Inspector Gowda novel, to be published locally end of 2014 by Harper Collins India.

This is Anita Nair’s first crime novel. Inspector Gowda is a fascinating character, a Rebus in love with someone else’s woman. It was published in India in 2013.
A story set in an exotic location in a fascinating social context: the underbelly of Bangalore is lovingly and revealingly depicted, with its startling scenes of ritual worship and lively transgenders known as hijras.
Hijras are men wanting to be women, most of them eunuchs, outcasts and persecuted, often seen begging or working as prostitutes, yet also hired as entertainers at weddings and other ceremonies as they have a reputation for bringing luck and fertility.
‘Cut Like Wound’ is a tightly plotted mystery set in an exotic world, but also a love story that unravels the repercussions of a boy’s fractured childhood.
.
Anita is currently writing a second Inspector Gowda novel, to be published locally end of 2014 by Harper Collins India.

A Cut-Like Wound

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