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The Edge of Desire
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ISBN
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9789350094433
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Publisher
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Hachette India (2012)
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Subject
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Others
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Binding
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PAPERBACK
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Pages
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324
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Year
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2012
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When journalist Shruti Ranjan, newly-wed wife of the Deputy Commissioner of Kishanganj in the lawless Bihar of the 1990s is brutally raped by a politically sheltered local goon all of her attempts at getting justice are crushed by a corrupt and complicit state government. That s when the charismatic Sharad Malviya, a leading member of the Opposition party, offers her an unlikely solution: his party s ticket to contest the Lok Sabha elections. Left with little to choose from, Shruti agrees, only to realize that being catapulted to an enviable position of power in an all-man s world comes at a price. Caught between her mentor and her spouse both upright but ultimately flawed men and a host of envious others who continue to cast aspersions on her character, she struggles to address the larger problems of the country. Taunted for being a Draupadi she makes the curse her identity and resolutely fights her fate...
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