Unfathomable

The novel is set among the inmates of a mental hospital, people given the label of schizophrenia and kept apart from society, whose inner lives swing between rapture, frenzy and torment. Its fragments of story gather into a mosaic. Preeti has been exploited within her own family; Bharati, once a doctor, now worships a stone beneath a peepal tree; Shashi resents her mother out of jealousy over her father; Maya from Darjeeling, past fifty, believes she is thirty-five and lives in memories of the hills; Ganga's own father sold her, and her husband abused her. The book hints that it is often the supposedly healthy world outside that pushes people into this darkness.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

115 pages in the original

First published

1999 by Purna Hangkhim

ISBN

9788126028962 (Sahitya Akademi, India)