Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous

Bold, stylish and deceptively witty, this gripping new novel by Manu Joseph poses searching questions about political forces and religious division--with an ingenious twist. On the day that Hindu nationalists and their controversial leader have won a spectacular election victory, a large apartment building collapses in Mumbai. The rescue operation finds a single survivor trapped under a beam. The only person able to reach him is Akhila Iyer, a medical student who is also a notorious prankster. Crawling through the rubble to administer first aid, she finds him mumbling in delirium that a young Muslim couple are on their way to carry out a terror attack. Elsewhere, an intelligence agent, Mukundan, is assigned to shadow two terror suspects, one of whom is the teenager Laila, sweetheart of her street. Time is running out and the chase is on... Pervasive in its comic realism, wicked in its humour and broad-based in its canvas, Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous is a fierce, profound and illuminating portrait of our age of globalisation and populist politics.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Myriad Editions
Published: 11/05/2019
ISBN: 9781912408108
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Booklist 10/15/2019 pg. 26