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The Blind Lady’s Descendants
AuthorAnees Salim
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
Drama
PublisherPenguin Books
Publication date
2014
Publication placeIndia
Pages304
ISBN9780143425717

The Blind Lady’s Descendants is an Indian English novel by Anees Salim published in 2014 by Penguin Books. The novel narrates story for a young boy named Amar who commits suicide in his teenage years and draw parallels on how his maternal uncle Javi had also killed himself. Salim won the Crossword Book Award in 2014 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in English category in 2018.

Plot

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Amar Hamsa is a young boy born and growing up in a small town of

Reviews

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Deccan Chronicle in their review of the novel calls it a "darkly comic work with a bitter afterbite".[1]

References

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  1. ^ Attari, Karishma (27 July 2014). "Book review: The Blind Lady's Descendants". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 2 April 2021.