Jissa Jose

MUDRITHA (eBook, ePUB)

A NOVEL

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One April, thirty-year-old Aniruddhan goes to the police station with a complaint: a woman named Mudritha has disappeared. He has, however, never met her; only interacted with her on the phone and by email while organizing, at her request, a tour to Odisha for herself and nine others - all women. After preliminary inquiries, though, the case is likely to be closed for want of progress. But Vanitha, the policewoman in charge, continues the investigation secretly. What begins as a search for Mudritha soon reveals more about the other women, a diverse group, who want to slip away, travel and touch the world beyond the mundane confines of their existence.

Jissa Jose's Mudritha explores women's lives: their desires, ambitions, love, anger, and attempts to resist and rise above the encroachment over their bodies and souls. Set in contemporary Kerala, the novel is a compelling portrait of women and the sojourns they make to find themselves - its every surge, every swell enlivened in this English translation by Jayasree Kalathil.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper Perennial India
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789362132635
• Artikelnr.: 72604370

Autorenporträt

Jissa Jose's debut novel, Mudritha (2021), was twice shortlisted for the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (in 2022 and 2024) and honoured with the Samadarshana Puraskaram in 2024. The book is in its sixth edition. She is the author of four other novels, Dark Fantasy (2021), Anandabharam (The Weight of Happiness, 2022), Mukthibahini (2023) and Blueberries (2024), and three short-story collections, Sarvamanushyarudeyum Rakshakku Vendiyulla Kripa (Grace for the Protection of All People, 2020), Irupathaam Nilayil Oru Puzha (On the Twentieth Floor, A River, 2020) and Pushpaka Vimanam (2022). Anandabharam was awarded the 2024 Ankanam Shamsuddin Smrithi Puraskaram. She has also authored Sthreevada Saundarya Shasthram (2020), a book on feminist aesthetics, its praxis and representation. Jissa is the principal of Government Arts and Science College, Kunnamangalam, Kozhikode. She has a PhD from the University of Calicut and received a post-doctoral award from the UGC.

Originally from Kottayam, she currently lives in Kozhikode district, Kerala.