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Sabin Iqbal
Moosa, Thaha, Jahangir and Usman are teenagers faced with having to prove their innocence when they are accused of raping a tourist in a fishing village in Kerala. The journalist Sabin Iqbal’s debut novel explores growing communal tension and religious fault lines, adolescent friendship and life near the sea.
Aleph, S499, 184 pages
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