num_pages: 145
description: Nanda Kaul, a woman remote in her self-imposed solitude among the Simla hills of India, her strange and silent great-granddaughter, and the broken old woman who is her only friend are touched in varying ways by the violence of living
language: English
title: Fire on the Mountain
titlecomplete: Fire on the Mountain
characters: Ila Das, Raka, Nanda Kaul
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Asia, India, Novella, Indian Literature, Asian Literature, Novels, Classics
ratings_count: 1109
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, name: Sahitya Akademi Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Premio Tomasi di Lampedusa
publisher: Harpercollins