The Odd book of Baby Names – Anees Aslam

599.00

From the winner of The Hindu Literary Prize, the Crossword Book Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Atta Galatta Banglore Literature Festival Award.

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Can life be like a jigsaw puzzle, pieces waiting to be conjoined? Like a game of hide-and-seek? Like playing statues? Can memories have colour? Can the sins of the father survive his descendants?
In a family – is it a family if they don’t know it? – that does not rely on the weakness of memory runs a strange register of names. The odd book of baby names has been custom-made on palace stationery for the patriarch, an eccentric king, one of the last kings of India, who dutifully records in it the name of his every offspring. As he bitterly draws his final breaths, eight of his one hundred rumored children trace the savage lies of their father and reckon with the burdens of their lineage.

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Weight0.49 kg

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