num_pages: 160
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: Nanda Kaul, Raka, Ila Das
genres: Asia, Novella, Literary Fiction, Novels, Asian Literature, Indian Literature, Literature, India, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 1108
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, name: Sahitya Akademi Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Premio Tomasi di Lampedusa
publisher: Penguin Books