by Anita Nair · Philippe Picquier · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782877306096
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«Compartiment pour dames» is the novel by Anita Nair, published by Philippe Picquier in paperback (326 pages, in French).
Akhila, a 45-year-old single woman who has always lived for others, travels by train to Kanyakumari. In the women's compartment she meets five women and asks them whether a woman can be happy without a man. The stories that emerge portray the lives and decisions of women in contemporary India.
The novel was originally published in English as «Ladies Coupé» in 2001; this French edition appeared in 2002.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in India, the role of women, and personal decisions in adult life.
Anita Nair is an Indian novelist who writes her books in English. She is best known for her novels A Better Man, Mistress, and Lessons in Forgetting. She has also written poetry, essays, short stories, crime fiction, historical fiction, romance, and children's literature, including Muezza and Baby Jaan: Stories from the Quran.
