by Anita Nair · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466318365
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«El vagón de las mujeres» is the contemporary novel by Anita Nair, published by Punto de Lectura in hardcover (400 pages, in Spanish).
Akhila, single and in her forties, escapes on a train crossing India towards the south. In the car she meets five women: a confused mother, a teacher with an authoritarian husband, a wife in search of identity, a teenager and a hardened woman. Their stories speak of love, marriage, family, friendship and the place of women.
The original title is «Ladies Coupé»; the translation is by Manu Berzategui; the novel was originally published in 2001.
Contemporary fiction featuring women, set in India, for lovers of ensemble stories.
Anita Nair is an Indian novelist who writes her books in English. She is best known for her novels A Better Man, Mistress, and Lessons in Forgetting. She has also written poetry, essays, short stories, crime fiction, historical fiction, romance, and children's literature, including Muezza and Baby Jaan: Stories from the Quran.
