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The Tiger's Share

By: Keshava Guha
Narrated by: Nikki Patel
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 'A stylish and engaging tragi-comedy of manners . . . Keshava Guha is an astute and insightful observer of contemporary India' Amitav Ghosh, author of THE IBIS TRILOGY

'A waspishly witty eye cast on the war between sisters and brothers in polluted, high-achieving Delhi' Francis Spufford

The fiercest wars are fought between siblings.

Tara, a successful Dehli lawyer, is everything her younger brother isn't: dedicated, independent, thriving. When their beloved father retires, he summons them to a meeting. But what he has to say threatens to tear the family apart.

Tara's friend Lila has it all: a great job, a lovely home, a beautiful family. But when Lila's father dies unexpectedly, her brother wastes no time in claiming what he thinks is his.

Together, Tara and Lila are forced to confront the challenge that their ambition poses to patriarchal Delhi society. Set against a backdrop of ecological collapse and political unrest, The Tiger's Share is both a family and a state-of-the-nation novel unlike anything else in contemporary Indian fiction.

'An extraordinary new kind of Indian novel in English, as attuned to life in contemporary New Delhi as to the choices ecological collapse eventually will force upon us all. It's also the story of two unforgettable families, told with a controlled emotional precision that only intensifies the power of the novel's shocking conclusion' Nell Freudenberger, author of THE NEWLYWEDS©2025 Keshava Guha (P)2025 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Witty
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This novel is rich, entertaining and thoughtful. The reader has a pleasant voice, pleasant enough to compensate for an English accent which doesn't at all fit the narrator (who, we are repeatedly told, has never lived or studied in England). However, the listening experience was seriously hampered by the reader's (and/or producer's) failures to research the correct pronunciations of Indian words. The biggest irritant was hearing 'Delhi' pronounced 'Dilli' by characters speaking English – a hypercorrection and a simple error given the largely English-speaking world in which the book is set. Saxena (the surname of several of the main characters) is not pronounced 'Sakseena'. Bangalore is not 'Bungalow'. 'Baba' is not 'Bubba'. 'Kayastha' is not 'Kayaasthaa'. (I could go on!) Even English words are consistently mispronounced: 'irrevocable', 'annals', 'Naipaulitis' (admitted a made-up word, but no one seems to have thought about what the word might mean!) A slip here and there can be ignored or forgiven. An error on nearly every page is hard to take. Indian books deserve better.

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For anyone who has spent time in the Capital during the stinking winter and the swelter of summer, those who have cooled their feet in the grasses of Lodi Gardens or Humayans Tomb, or wandered Khan and Sundar Bazaars, this book will evoke memories. Read beautifully.

Delhi is alive in these pages.

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