Village

Product Description

The Village" by Nikita Lalwani the prize-winning author of " Gifted" is a disturbing & utterly gripping modern morality tale set in contemporary India & will appeal to readers of Kiran Desai's " The Inheritance of Loss" & Jhumpa Lahiri's " The Namesake". Ray a young British-Asian woman arrives in the afternoon heat of a small village in India. She has come to live there for several months to make a documentary about the place. For this is no ordinary Indian village
- the women collecting water at the well the men chopping wood in the early morning light have all been found guilty of murder. The village is an open prison. Ray is accompanied by two British colleagues & as the days pass they begin to get closer to the lives of the inhabitants of the village. & then it feels too close. As the British visitors become desperate for a story the distinction between innocence & guilt between good intentions & horrifying results becomes horribly blurred. Set in a village modelled on a real-life open prison in India " The Village" is a gripping story about manipulation & personal morality about how truly frail our moral judgement can be. Nikita Lalwani has written a dazzling heartfelt & disturbing novel which delivers on all the promise of her first. "A sparkling funny & poignant study of a young maths prodigy struggling with her gift & a difficult family". (Gerard Woodward " Books of the Year" (" Gifted") " Observer). Nikita Lalwani was born in Rajasthan & raised in Cardiff. Her first novel " Gifted" was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize & shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award & won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She lives in London."