The Pangolin's Tale
- ISBN-10
- 818386032X
- ISBN-13
- 9788183860321
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 220
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- India Research Press
- Author
- Nalini Rajan
Description
Shanti embarks on a voyage of self-discovery on a Francophone university campus in Paris. Shanti's non-European friends think of her as different from the 'others', a terms reserved for Europeans by the foreign students, most of whom are paranoid about race distinctions. Marie Elena, a sociologist with prophetic judgements about people, and south American Carlos and Aline are Shanti's friends but her close reltaionship with the strange Dominique, the only person to whom she confesses her love for the cold and married Etienne, is the catalyst of her story. A shocking event causes Shanti to re-evaluate her years at the university and to discover that while she had felt superior, judging others and their trivial lives objectively, it was her own life that was impoverished and her understanding superficial. This finely written novel brings alive life in a foreign university as seen through the eyes of an Indian student where frindship, love and guilt are explored through the vividly etched and complex characters that inhabit Shanti's world.
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