Leila

Shalini will never forget her daughter Leila's third birthday party: it was the last time she saw her alive. She trawls the streets desperate to discover where Leila now lives - if she lives at all.

Shalini will never forget her daughter Leila’s third birthday party: it was the last time she saw her alive.

Sixteen years have passed and Shalini’s life is unrecognizable. Her husband gone: beaten and dragged from their home the night Leila disappeared. Shalini, once privileged, is now disgraced. She trawls the streets desperate to discover where Leila now lives – if she lives at all.

In this repressive state, where tradition and purity are valued above all, those outside the city walls – forced to live in filth and oppressive heat – are less than nothing. But can Shalini find a way back in? Will she see Leila again?

• | Author: Prayaag Akbar
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 2019
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780571341320
• | ISBN-10: 0571341322