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The Hope Factory

The Hope Factory

Author(s): Lavanya Sankaran

Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)

Genre(s): Fiction

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Two families. One city. Too many secrets

Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that’s how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New India, neither of these is easy to find.

Kamala, Anand’s family’s maid, lives perilously close to the edge of disaster. She and her clever teenage son have almost nothing, and their small hopes for self-betterment depend on the contentment of Anand’s wife: a woman to whom whims come easily.

But Kamala’s son keeps bad company. Anand’s marriage is in trouble. And the murky world where crime and land and politics meet is a dangerous place for a good man, particularly one on whom the wellbeing of so many depends.

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‘Strong echoes of Dickens in this vibrant portrait of ambition and struggle in Bangalore’ (Guardian)

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