About Book
His married daughter is having trouble conceiving, his son's call centre job might be a cover for something murkier, and his wife expects him to solve these problems. Then there is Pinki Kaur, a colleague and his friend's widow, whose presence in the office stirs responses in him that he can neither submit to nor suppress. Distracted by personal crises, he misses the signs of political trouble brewing at work, and so it is that Naresh finds himself suspended from his job. Unseated from the desk that has been the source of his power and well-being, he must still struggle to make things right for his family: Naresh is, after all, a householder. With uncommon acuity, Amitabha Bagchi writes of a world where favours are currency, where access to power sometimes feels like a prerequisite for survival, where power can be both total and ephemeral. The Householder is a view from within this world, an examination of the moral condition of our times.
About Author
Amitabha Bagchi was born in New Delhi and grew up there. He got his PhD in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins and moved back to New Delhi where he teaches in the Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT Delhi. His first novel, Above Average, was published in India by HarperCollins in 2007 and became a bestseller. His second novel, The Householder, has been published in India by Fourth Estate in April 2012