Author: | Eunice De Souza | ISBN: | 9789353051501 |
Publisher: | Penguin Random House India Private Limited | Publication: | November 7, 2008 |
Imprint: | Penguin | Language: | English |
Author: | Eunice De Souza |
ISBN: | 9789353051501 |
Publisher: | Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Publication: | November 7, 2008 |
Imprint: | Penguin |
Language: | English |
Rina Ferreira, middle-aged and single, lecturer in English literature, tentative poet, owner of two parrots and a flat in Queen’s Diamonds building. Daily she comes across some ‘dangerlok’: autorickshaw-walas who clog her lane; the neighbour who objects to the kept woman in the flat below hers; students who wonder if she has any friends; people who ask if she’s Indian. Fortified with cigarettes and junglee tea, Rina observes them all, and dashes off letters brimming with the details of her Bombay-life to an old flame who calls up to talk about his girlfriends when sober and to profess his love for her when drunk.
Rina Ferreira, middle-aged and single, lecturer in English literature, tentative poet, owner of two parrots and a flat in Queen’s Diamonds building. Daily she comes across some ‘dangerlok’: autorickshaw-walas who clog her lane; the neighbour who objects to the kept woman in the flat below hers; students who wonder if she has any friends; people who ask if she’s Indian. Fortified with cigarettes and junglee tea, Rina observes them all, and dashes off letters brimming with the details of her Bombay-life to an old flame who calls up to talk about his girlfriends when sober and to profess his love for her when drunk.