The Tiger's Share

Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781399813389

Price: £16.99

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The fiercest wars are fought between siblings.

Tara, a successful Dehli lawyer, is everything her younger brother isn’t: dedicated, independent, thriving. When their beloved father retires, he summons them to a meeting. But what he has to say threatens to tear the family apart.

Tara’s friend Lila has it all: a great job, a lovely home, a beautiful family. But when Lila’s father dies unexpectedly, her brother wastes no time in claiming what he thinks is his.

Together, Tara and Lila are forced to confront the challenge that their ambition poses to patriarchal Delhi society. Set against a backdrop of ecological collapse and political unrest, The Tiger’s Share is both a family and a state-of-the-nation novel unlike anything else in contemporary Indian fiction.

Reviews

A brilliant conceit - far wider in its implications than it first seems - and a waspishly witty eye cast on the war between sisters and brothers in polluted, high-achieving Delhi
Francis Spufford