Another Country
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Anjali Joseph
Fourth Estate
304 pages R499
The newspaper was full of unfamiliar usages—encroachment (meaning an illegal building), gift (as a verb), incidentally (meaning importantly), hutment. In the colour supplement were bad photos of people who appeared to be famous.
A coming of age story about Leela, a Cambridge graduate trying to find her place in the world as she lives in and moves through Paris, London and Bombay. Leela learns to negotiate the world, work, relationships and sex, and find some measure of authenticity.
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