Country of Goodbyes

Four women. One man. Five stories that interweave, overlap, cross over and come together as the characters speak their lives to the reader and to each other. This translation of Mridula Garg’s original Hindi novel, Kathgulab, seethes with disquiet. Hailed as a work of extraordinary power and vigour when it was published, Country of Goodbyes is unrelenting in its probing, astringent in its delineation of women trying to break free. Unusual and gripping!