by Kishwar Desai · Editions de l’Aube · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782815915175
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«Témoin de la nuit» is the suspense novel by Kishwar Desai, published by Editions de l’Aube in paperback (288 pages, in French).
An Indian social worker, Simran Singh, investigates the case of a teenager found gagged and burned in her family home, alongside thirteen dead members of her family. The police name her as the main suspect, but the girl refuses to speak; Simran must reconstruct the events in a society where being a woman can be a danger.
First installment of the Simran Singh series. Originally published in English as Witness the Night, it won the Costa First Novel Award in 2010; the French edition is translated by Benoîte Dauvergne.
For readers of crime fiction and thrillers interested in stories set in India and plots about the condition of women.
Kishwar, Lady Desai is an Indian author and columnist. Her first novel, Witness the Night, won the Costa Book Award in 2010 for Best First Novel and has been translated into over 25 languages. It was also shortlisted for the Author's Club First Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Her novel Origins of Love, published in June 2012, was critically acclaimed. The Sea of Innocence, published in 2014 in India as well as in the UK and Australia, was widely discussed as it dealt with the issue of gang rape. Desai also has a biography, Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt, to her credit.
