A Cardboard Bequest*
Anjana Neira Dev
HALF-BLOOD by By Pronoti Datta Speaking Tiger, New Delhi, 2022, 264 pp., 499
October 2023, volume 47, No 10

The ‘skein of duality’ that runs through Pronoti Datta’s debut novel gives it its special character, and as one toggles between the past and the present, between people and places, and between culture, politics and history, all of which make up the warp and weft of the story, the reader is drawn irresistibly into its multihued narrative.

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