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Jan 3, 2023 · An Amazon Best Book of January 2023: The Bandit Queens is a delightfully entertaining and thought-provoking debut novel about female friendship, agency, and unlikely killers. After her husband disappears without a trace, Geeta’s small Indian village paints her as his killer—when we meet her the gossip barely stings, though the loneliness of ...
Jan 3, 2023 · The Bandit Queen, Phoolan Devi, who lived in the late 20th century, was a woman who took revenge on her male abusers before becoming a women’s activist and member of Parliament. She is Geeta’s role model.
Jan 9, 2023 · “Women were built to endure the rules men make,” Parini Shroff writes in her debut novel, “The Bandit Queens,” which covers a litany of grim realities in rural India: poverty, hunger,...
About The Bandit Queens NATIONAL BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands—in this razor-sharp debut.
Parini Shroff's The Bandit Queens is a darkly comedic tale about female friendship and women's empowerment that upholds respectful discourse about violence against women in India and the systems that perpetuate that brutality. Shroff's novel is a delicate tightrope act, always balancing on the line between comedy and tragedy.
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Jan 9, 2024 · NATIONAL BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other women in the village...
The Bandit Queens is a rollicking adventure cum feminist revenge story. It abounds with laugh out loud humour, slapstick comedy and witty dialogue which serves as the perfect foil and counterpoint to the weightier themes of domestic abuse, the control of women’s lives by a patriarchy steeped in superstition and tradition, and a society riven ...
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Feb 1, 2024 · A radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of unsinkable women - Chandler Baker, New York Times. This funny, feel-good read is a rollicking ride rife with memorable characters involved in ill-fated hijinks.
Jan 3, 2023 · THE BANDIT QUEENS. by Parini Shroff ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 3, 2023. Readers will appreciate—if not quite be riveted by—this tale of the strength of women in impossible situations. bookshelf. shop now. Bonds of sisterhood are forged through murders.
Enduring cruel poverty, Phoolan Devi survived the humiliation of an abusive marriage, the savage killing of her bandit-lover and horrifying gang rape to claim retribution for herself and all low-caste women of the Indian plains.
