THE MIDDLE FINGER

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  • Pub Date  :  January 2022
  • Author : Saikat Majumdar
  • Publisher : SIMON & SCHUSTER
  • Binding Type : Hardcover
  • ISBN : 9789392099274
  • MRP : 599.00

ABOUT THE BOOK:
What are the ethical boundaries of friendship and intimacy between a student and a teacher?

Megha, a young writing lecturer in New Jersey struggles to finish her thesis and find full-time employment even as she begins to find underground fame as a poet. Restless and disenchanted, she lets her professor and friends persuade her to take up a position at a new university in Delhi. Moving continents, resettling in the city she knew as a teenager, she discovers that the university is an island of wealth and privilege, and that her mandate is to teach and train some of the key members of India’s ruling class. But her life as a teacher is disrupted as she makes a new friend who unsettles her and asks for unexpected support.

In sharp and lyrical prose, The Middle Finger tells the story of a poet grappling with questions about mentorship and belonging, disrupting boundaries set by society and the hierarchies hidden in the world of education.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Saikat Majumdar is the author of three novels, including the The Firebird (published in the US as Play House), one of Telegraph’s Best Books of 2015, a finalist for the Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Prize and The Mumbai Film Festival Word-to-Screen Market, and The Scent of God, one of Times of India’s 20 Most Talked About Books of 2019 and a finalist for the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award. He has also published a book of literary criticism, Prose of the World, a work of general nonfiction, College, and a co-edited collection of essays, The Critic as Amateur. He lives in Delhi.

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