num_pages: 185
description: Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife mother and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station. Because while Mrs. Sharma may espouse traditional values India is changing all around her and it wouldn't be the end of the world if she came out of her shell a little would it? With equal doses of humour and pathos The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma is a sharp-eyed examination of the clashing of tradition and modernity from a dramatic new voice in Indian fiction.
language: English
title: The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma
publisher: Bloomsbury