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The Hope Factory

On sale

23rd April 2013

Price: £9.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781472200228

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Where innocence, deceit and love collide


Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that’s how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New India, neither of these is easy to find.


Kamala, Anand’s family’s maid, lives perilously close to the edge of disaster. She and her clever teenage son have almost nothing, and their small hopes for self-betterment depend on the contentment of Anand’s wife: a woman to whom whims come easily.


But Kamala’s son keeps bad company. Anand’s marriage is in trouble. And the murky world where crime and wealth and politics meet is a dangerous place for good men, and those who rely on them.

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Reviews

Guardian
'Strong echoes of Dickens in this vibrant portrait of ambition and struggle in Bangalore'
Daily Mail
'Evocative debut depicting life at both ends of Bangalore's social scale. Vivid descriptions make the city as captivating as Sankaran's protagonists'
Kirkus (starred review)
A vivid exposé of modern India's growing pains
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
[A] well-crafted debut novel... Sankaran firmly establishes her talent through the nuances of her characters and a striking exploration of culture
Booklist
'[A] masterful novel... impossible to put down. [A] compelling tale'
Washington Post
Praise for Lavanya Sankaran's The Red Carpet: The Red Carpet reads like a revelation. . . . I recommend this book so highly!
John Dalton, author of <i>The Inverted Forest </i>
An unusually elegant and nuanced portrait
Publishers Weekly
[An] animated debut . . . [These stories] are memorable for their subtle wit and convincing evocation of a dynamic world