num_pages: 146
description: Nanda Kaul has chosen to spend her last years high up in the mountains. There, free from the demands of a busy life, she can arrange her thoughts into tranquillity.Her great-grandchild comes to join her. A thin, fragile, secretive girl whose intrusion Nanda Kaul deeply resents. But this child has a capacity to change things, and Nanda Kaul discovers new needs deep within herself. When the violence explodes she faces the truth.
language: English
title: Fire on the Mountain
titlecomplete: Fire on the Mountain
characters: Raka, Ila Das, Nanda Kaul
genres: Fiction, Indian Literature, Asia, India, Literature, Classics, Asian Literature, Novels, Novella, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1109
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, name: Sahitya Akademi Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Premio Tomasi di Lampedusa
publisher: Penguin Books