Other Indias
Walter Nash, 15 September 1988
Mistaken Identity
by Nayantara Sahgal.
Heinemann, 194 pp., £10.95, April 1988,0 434 66612 2 Show More
by Nayantara Sahgal.
Heinemann, 194 pp., £10.95, April 1988,
“... Mrs Pen smells of memories.’ Pale hands nobody loved – where are you now? For the actors in Nayantara Sahgal’s Mistaken Identity, the agonies of Partition have yet to be: nevertheless, the story anticipates them. This is an elegant, adroitly constructed, mordantly witty book, in which the general image and particular manifestation of our ... ”