Coming of Age PDF EPUB MOBI

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

Downloads: Under 100
First published: 2006
Pages: 329

Read online EPUB Download Save

About this book

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? is a deeply moving novel by Anita Rau Badami. The narrative writes together the lives of three Indian women - Bibi-ji, Leela, and Nimmo - each striving to find a sense of peace amidst rapidly shifting personal and political landscapes.

About the author

Anita Rau Badami

Anita Rau Badami wrote copy and freelance journalism in India before moving to Canada in 1991 and taking a creative writing master's at Calgary in 1995. Born in Rourkela in 1961, she published Tamarind Mem in 1997 and followed it with The Hero's Walk, which took the regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Canada and the Caribbean and Italy's Premio Berto.