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Getting There

Manjula Padmanabhan

A young woman’s quest for love, truth and weight loss. Late 1970s, Bombay. Manjula is in her twenties, struggling to earn a living as an author-illustrator. Then, a deceptively routine visit to a diet clinic and an encounter with two tall Dutch men turn her life inside out. Without much ado, she speeds off on a Westward-bound spiritual quest, which involves cheating on her boyfriend, lying to everyone she loves and cutting off all ties with her safe, respectable, bourgeois Indian upbringing. In this picaresque travel memoir, novelist, cartoonist and award-winning playwright Manjula Padmanabhan looks back on her youthful misadventures in Europe. By turns funny and fierce, Getting There will touch anyone who has ever wanted to strip off their own skin to waltz, however briefly, on the wild side.

  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : JUN 25, 2020
  • Imprint : Hachette India
  • Page Extent : 376
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9789389253290
  • Price : INR 499
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Manjula Padmanabhan

Manjula Padmanabhan is a writer, artist, cartoonist and playwright. She lives in the US, with a part-time home in New Delhi.

She is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including her travel-memoir Getting There, and the first two of a science fiction trilogy, Escape and The Island of Lost Girls. Her play Harvest won the 1997 Onassis Prize for Theatre in Greece. She has published more than twenty illustrated books for children as author-artist, including Unprincess, Mouse Attack, I Am Different and Mama, What Is The Night?. Her female comic-strip character SUKI has appeared in mass-circulation newspapers such as The Sunday Observer, The Pioneer and BusinessLine.

 

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