by Anita Nair · Libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782877307475
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«Compartiment pour dames» is a contemporary novel by Indian writer Anita Nair, published by Picquier poche in paperback, in French.
Akhila, an unmarried woman in her forties who works at the tax office and has devoted her life to her family, decides to take a one-way train to Kanyakumari, in southern India. In the women's compartment she meets five fellow travellers whose stories lead her to wonder whether a woman needs a man to be happy.
Translated from English (India) by Marielle Morin; original title: Ladies Coupé (2001). French edition published in 2004.
For readers of contemporary and Indian literature, interested in women's stories and female independence.
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.
