Tiger Hills

01 August 2010

Sarita Mandanna

Penguin Viking

451 pages, rs 599

Devi stared through the window into the clear, starlit night. Beneath the blanket, her fists were curled into little balls, her nails pressing into skin. She thought again of the tiger wedding, and of the bridegroom. “Only him,” she repeated to herself. “I will marry only Machu.”


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