The Bandit Queens

Author(s): Parini Shroff

Location(s): Uttar Pradesh

Genre(s): Fiction, Humour

Era(s): Contemporary

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For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife…

Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too.

Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband – a rumour she hasn’t bothered trying to correct, because a reputation like that can keep a single woman safe in rural India. But when she’s approached for help in ridding another wife of her abusive drunk of a husband, her reluctant agreement sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of all the women in the village….

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This is such a competently put together novel and very evocative of India. Geeta’s abusive husband, Ramesh, disappeared 5 years ago and everyone is of the opinion that she somehow killed him. Did she, or didn’t she? As the...

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