by Kishwar Desai · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782815910873
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«La mer d'innocence» is the crime novel by Kishwar Desai, published by Nouvelles éditions de l'Aube in paperback (336 pages, in French).
A detective faces the disappearance of several children in present-day India and the web of secrets surrounding the case. The novel combines the pulse of the investigation with a look at lost innocence, social violence, and the difficulty of knowing the truth in an environment marked by appearances.
The novel was published in 2015 in the Polar collection of Nouvelles éditions de l'Aube.
For those seeking crime fiction with a female protagonist and a portrait of contemporary India.
Kishwar, Lady Desai is an Indian author and columnist. Her first novel, Witness the Night, won the Costa Book Award in 2010 for Best First Novel and has been translated into over 25 languages. It was also shortlisted for the Author's Club First Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Her novel Origins of Love, published in June 2012, was critically acclaimed. The Sea of Innocence, published in 2014 in India as well as in the UK and Australia, was widely discussed as it dealt with the issue of gang rape. Desai also has a biography, Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt, to her credit.
