ISBN: 9780670088263    Publisher: Penguin Books India Year of publishing: 2015     Format:  Hardback No of Pages: 400        Language: English

Qayenaat is a drifting, solitary, sensitivefigure at the edge of the Bangalore art scene. When world-famous artist Baban Reddy, once a young man who hung on her every word, returns to the city to show his latest artwork, all her old longings rise to the surface. Baban's arrival accompanies other momentous events and sets Qayenaat off on the most unexpected journey of her life--to the heart of rural, war-torn India, and into a relationship with the unlikeliest of men.

The Cosmopolitans is a novel of ideas and emotions--one that questions the place of art in modern life, and draws a vivid portrait of a woman at odds with the world. Tender and wry in equal measure, and rich in thought and insight, it confirms Anjum Hasan as one of our most exciting novelists today.

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Anjum Hasan is the author of two novels, Lunatic in my Head (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award) and Neti, Neti (longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, andshortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize), a book of poetry called Street on the Hill and, most recently, a collection of short stories, Difficult Pleasures (shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize and the Crossword Book Award). She lives in Bangalore.
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