by Anita Nair · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420401355
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«Un hombre mejor» is the novel by Anita Nair published by Alfaguara in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Mukundan, a middle-aged man, returns to Kaikurussi, the village where he was born, and settles into the family home, a place where the past is still very present. To overcome those ghosts, he decides to restore the house and hires Bhasi the Painter, who supervises the renovations. Bhasi, with his peculiar way of healing people, helps Mukundan while fixing the walls, but the protagonist's transformation and his search for happiness will soon be challenged in this story about friendship and redemption.
The novel is part of the Literaturas collection from Alfaguara and was translated by Manu Berastegui.
Recommended for readers of contemporary literary fiction and for those who enjoy stories set in rural India, featuring characters in search of a second chance.
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.
