Waiting for Rain

By Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

In the Kolkata of the early 1970s, the naxalite insurgency holds the city in thrall. Somsundar, an unemployed youth, and Manju, a young woman brought up in the protected environment of the upper middle class, wrestle with reality and change as the city, gripped by a symbolic drought, waits desperately for rain

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143029649
• ISBN13: 9780143029649
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Penguin Books India
• Length: 216 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 9.1"