num_pages: 160
description: Nanda Kaul is now old. She has chosen to spend her last years alone among the pines and cicadas, high in the mountains in a quiet house, wanting only to be left in peace. However her solitude is broken with the arrival of her great-granddaughter, Raka. Through the long hot summer, hidden dependencies and old wounds are uncovered, until tragedy becomes inevitable.
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: 1108
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, name: Sahitya Akademi Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Premio Tomasi di Lampedusa
publisher: VINTAGE (RAND)