ISBN: 1914148436 9781914148439

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 224

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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?</p>