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The City Son
By
Samrat Upadhyay and
Priya Ayyar (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication date
June 17, 2014
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781483013701
ISBN-10
1483013707
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.50 by 6 in.
Weight
0.30 lbs.
Original list price
$34.95
Other format details
audio
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: [Read by Priya Ayyar]
Potent, disturbing, and gorgeously stark in its execution, The City Son is a novel not soon forgotten. - - Acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat Upadhyay the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West has crafted a spare, understated work examining a taboo subject: a scorned wife's obsession with her husband's illegitimate son.
When Didi discovers that her husband, the Masterji, has been hiding his beautiful lover and their young son Tarun in a nearby city, she takes the Masterji back into her grasp and expels his second family. Tarun's mother, heartsick and devastated, slowly begins to lose her mind, and Tarun turns to Didi for the mothering he longs for. But as Tarun gets older, Didi's domination of the boy turns from the emotional to the physical, and the damages she inflicts spiral outward, threatening to destroy Tarun's one chance at true happiness. Potent, disturbing, and gorgeously stark in its execution, The City Son is a novel not soon forgotten.
Potent, disturbing, and gorgeously stark in its execution, The City Son is a novel not soon forgotten. - - Acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat Upadhyay the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West has crafted a spare, understated work examining a taboo subject: a scorned wife's obsession with her husband's illegitimate son.
When Didi discovers that her husband, the Masterji, has been hiding his beautiful lover and their young son Tarun in a nearby city, she takes the Masterji back into her grasp and expels his second family. Tarun's mother, heartsick and devastated, slowly begins to lose her mind, and Tarun turns to Didi for the mothering he longs for. But as Tarun gets older, Didi's domination of the boy turns from the emotional to the physical, and the damages she inflicts spiral outward, threatening to destroy Tarun's one chance at true happiness. Potent, disturbing, and gorgeously stark in its execution, The City Son is a novel not soon forgotten.
Editions
Hardcover
from Soho Pr Inc (June 17, 2014)
9781616953812 | details & prices | 243 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Set in Samrat Upadhyayâs signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned womanâs lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.
About: Set in Samrat Upadhyayâs signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned womanâs lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.
Paperback
from Soho Pr Inc (May 12, 2015)
9781616955380 | details & prices | 243 pages | 5.50 × 8.20 × 0.60 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Set in Samrat Upadhyayâs signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned womanâs lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.
About: Set in Samrat Upadhyayâs signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned womanâs lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.
CD/Spoken Word
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With Priya Ayyar (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (June 17, 2014)
9781483013701 | details & prices | 5.50 × 6.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $34.95
About: [Read by Priya Ayyar] Potent, disturbing, and gorgeously stark in its execution, The City Son is a novel not soon forgotten.
About: [Read by Priya Ayyar] Potent, disturbing, and gorgeously stark in its execution, The City Son is a novel not soon forgotten.
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