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The Village
The Village | Nikita Lalwani
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The long-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed, Booker longlisted Gifted, a provocative novel about an experimental open prison in India and the havoc a team of journalists wreaks on the delicate moral code of the inmates. After a long journey from England, Ray Bhullar arrives early on a winter morning at the gates of a remote Indian village called Ashwer which will be her home for the next three months. The door of the hut she will share with Serena, her English co-worker, is a loose sheet of metal, the windows simple holes in the walls. Beyond the lockless door, village life goes on as usual. And yet, the village is anything but normal. Despite the domestic chores being carried out, cooking, fetching water and sewing and laundering linens, Ashwer is a village of murderers, an experimental open prison. And when Ray and her crew take up residence, to observe and to make a documentary, it seems that they are innocent visitors into a violent world, on a mission to hold the place up to viewers as the ultimate example of tolerance. But the longer Ray and her colleagues stay and their need for drama intensifies, the line between innocence and guilt begins to blur and an unexpected and terrifying new kind of cruelty emerges. A mesmerizing and heartfelt tale of manipulation and personal morality, Nikita Lalwani's new novel brilliantly exposes how truly frail our moral judgment can be.
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KarenUK
The Village | Nikita Lalwani
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#bookmail 📬Woo hoo! Boxing Day BookOutlet sale haul, and BOTM arrive in the same day! Lots of great ones for the TBR pile 😍💕

BekahB Nice haul! I almost bought The Well during the last Book Outlet sale, but it didn't make the final cut. It's still in my wishlist though. 😀 8y
Balibee146 Nice... Love the Kate Atkinson - whole series is good :-) 8y
Reviewsbylola Loved Pull Me Under and Lillian Boxfish is excellent so far. 8y
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LeahBergen I love that Kate Atkinson series 👍🏼 8y
KarenUK @Balibee146 @Reviewsbylola @LeahBergen @BekahB great to hear all these good things! ... now the decision of what to start first 🤔💕 8y
SaraFair A. J. Fikry is a fun one! 8y
ValerieAndBooks Nice haul! I keep seeing Book Outlet here on Litsy-- going to check it out now! 8y
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SusanInTiburon
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The Village is an experimental open prison in India, where convicted murderers live with their families. London filmmakers arrive to make a documentary, but the desire for a dramatic storyline skews the view ...

GinaAnderson This sounds fascinating. 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa That sounds really intriguing! 8y
Megabooks I've got to find this! Thanks! #ebc 8y
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