by Benoîte DAUVERGNE, Mathangi SUBRAMANIAN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782815935777
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«Les toits du paradis» is the novel by Mathangi Subramanian, translated by Benoîte Dauvergne, in paperback (Éditions de l'Aube, 408 pp., French).
In the community of Paradis, a shantytown hidden among the skyscrapers of Bangalore, five young women form unbreakable bonds and share the little they have. When the local government plans to demolish their homes to build a shopping mall, they and their mothers face the bulldozers to avoid being erased from the map.
The work is a translation from English (India); the French edition was published on 2 January 2020.
A read for those who want to know contemporary urban India through a story of neighbourhood resistance and friendship among women.
