The Two-Tailed Snake

A literary coming-of-age tale set in 1940s India
North-east India, 1945. Tensions are rising, but fourteen-year-old Joya doesn't pay much attention to 'political business' - until the day her father disappears without a trace. Forced to drop out of school and support her mother by working in a garment factory, Joya begins to question who and what is really behind her father's sudden departure.
'An accomplished story of familial love and separation, set in an India of looming partition' -Mike Fox Author of The Violet Eye

North-east India, 1945. Tensions are rising, but fourteen-year-old Joya doesn't pay much attention to 'political business' - she is more concerned with doing well at school and having fun with her best friends.

Yet when her father disappears without a trace, Joya's life falls apart. Forced to drop out of school and support her mother by working in a garment factory, she refuses to accept that her father is gone forever, spending her nights sewing him a suit from scraps of fine material.

But as political unrest grows and rumours of corruption spread, Joya questions the true nature of her father's disappearance. And who is the sinister figure known only as the two-tailed snake?

A moving and deftly woven literary novella.

Pages: 224

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