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Railsong : a novel
Bhattacharya, Rahul, 1979-2026
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In a newly independent India charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for freedom from the shackles of her impoverishment and meagre prospects. As diesel engines replace steam and the calamitous churn of drought, famine and a great strike engulfs her town, Charu dares to imagine a different future for herself. She boards a train and flees westwards, leaving behind the oppressive domesticity of her childhood for the alluring modernity, and apparent opportunities, of Bombay. Unfazed by the everyday discriminations around her, she becomes an unlikely hero: a railway woman and census enumerator who keeps her heart open - sometimes guilelessly - to her nation's vast possibility.
Main title:
Railsong : a novel / Rahul Bhattacharya.
Author:
Bhattacharya, Rahul, 1979-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2026.
Collation:
416 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781526691729 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
9055906
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond Lending Library | Adult fiction | General | Onloan - Due: 30 Apr 2026 |