The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff
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Description
Fiction
General Literary Humorous
Family Life
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023
For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife…
Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too.
A darkly irreverent and fresh take on a feminist revenge thriller..
A radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of unsinkable women’ –
New York Times
Trade Paperback
384 pages
Ballantine
Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband – a rumour she hasn’t bothered trying to correct, because a reputation like that can keep a single woman safe in rural India. But when she’s approached for help in ridding another wife of her abusive drunk of a husband, her reluctant agreement sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of all the women in the village….
Reviews-
Tender, unpredictable, brimming with laugh-out-loud moments’ Téa Obreht, author of THE TIGER’S WIFE
‘Original, memorable, and endearing’ Charmaine Wilkerson, author of BLACK CAKE
‘A rollicking mash-up of adventure story, thriller, dark revenge, and comedy’ Cristina García, author of DREAMING IN CUBAN.
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