Desert Shadows

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Author: AnandPublisher: PenguinYear: 1998Language: EnglishPages: 270ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140278249 DescriptionA powerful story about one man's refusal to give in to the barren ness of modern life. The novel tells the story of Kundan, a labor officer, at a sensitive defense project in a remote desert town. A section of the workers at the site are prisoners drawn from different jails. While recruiting them, Kundan detects an innocent villager who has taken on the identity and sentence of a ruthless killer and joined the project in his place. This becomes the starting point of a series of revelations. Writing with gut-wrenching honesty about the terror and the plain which haunts the citizens of modern society, the author has produced a stark and disturbing novel about the nature of human existence. Show more