Indian novelist Jahnavi Barua tells the story of Karua, who is working through a troubled marriage and struggling with personal tragedies even as she is discovering the depth of the bond between a mother and her unborn baby.

Here are the seven novels that made the shortlist for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize.
Indian novelist Jahnavi Barua tells the story of Karua, who is working through a troubled marriage and struggling with personal tragedies even as she is discovering the depth of the bond between a mother and her unborn baby.
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