ISBN: 9788184001877    Publisher: Random House Year of publishing: 2011     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 320        Language: English

In her bestselling novel Aftertaste (over 5000 hardback copies sold), NamitaDevidayal provides a captivating account of a baniya family settled in Punjab headed by amatriarch, Mummyji, who is in hospital after a stroke. The Todarmal family, glued together bymoney not love, includes the weak and emasculated Rajan Papa who is desperately in need of cash;Sunny, the dynamic head of the business with an ugly marriage and a demanding mistress; Suman,the spoilt and greedy beauty of the family who is determined to get her hands on Mummyji's bestjewels; and Saroj, Suman's unlucky sister, who has always lived in her shadow. Each one of themwants Mummyji to die.
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Namita Devidayal was born in 1968 and graduated from Princeton University. The Music Room, her first book, was a winner of the 2008 Vodafone Crossword Popular Book Award and was named an Outlook book of 2007. A journalist with The Times of India, Namita lives in Mumbai.
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