Announcing a new Meetup for Bangalore Book Club [BBC] Meetup Group!

What: A Special Meetup with World Renowned Author Anita Nair

When: Saturday, July 10, 2010 3:30 PM

Price: $5.00 (Rs.200) Per Person

Where: Will be Updated Soon


Hi Friends,

Welcome you all to Our Second Biggest Meetup of the year 2010 of Bangalore Book Club [BBC] Meetup Group, A Special Meetup with world renowned Author Anita Nair.

The Introduction of our Special Guest, World Renowned Author Anita Nair.



Anita Nair is the best-selling author of three novels, The Better Man, Ladies Coupé and Mistress, and a collection of literary essays, Goodnight and God Bless. Mistress was long-listed for the 2008 Orange Prize in the UK. It was also a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Award in the USA and for the LiBeratupreis 2007 in Germany. Anita’s books have been translated into thirty languages around the world. Anita lives in Bangalore with her husband and son.



Lessons in Forgetting
by Anita Nair

The new novel from the bestselling author
of the unforgettable Ladies Coupé


MEERA, GRACIOUS MEERA, GOOSEGIRL MEERA, is happily submerged in the role of corporate wife and writer of cookbooks. Then, one day, her husband fails to come home. Overnight, Meera, disoriented, emotionally fragile Meera, becomes responsible not just for her children Nayantara and Nikhil, but also her mother Saro, her grandmother Lily and the running of Lilac House, their rambling old family home in Bangalore.

A few streets away, Professor J. A. Krishnamurthy or Jak, cyclone studies expert, survivor of one marriage and several other encounters, has only recently returned from Florida. In a bedroom in his house lies his nineteen-year-old daughter Smriti, a tragic embodiment of memory and past violence. What happened on her holiday in a small beachside town in Tamil Nadu to make her so? The police will not help, Smriti’s friends have vanished, and a wall of silence and fear surrounds the incident. But Jak cannot rest till he gets to the truth.

By a series of coincidences Meera and Jak find their lives turning and twisting together, with the unpredictability and sheer inevitability of a cyclone. And as the days pass, fresh beginnings appear where there seemed to be only endings.

Crafted to echo the stages of a cyclone, Lessons in Forgetting is a heartwarming story of redemption, forgiveness and second chances.


Praise for Lessons in Forgetting

Nair evokes in her readers wonder, delight and grief. She writes about man-woman relationships and complex Kathakali aesthetics with equal felicity.
— M. Mukundan

Nair’s women are fleshed out to the last detail. You can visualize them clearly – their faces, their bones, their desires... —The Telegraph

This is storytelling with eyes wide open. —The Guardian

Anita Nair is a fine writer with a great sense of character, vivid knowledge of South Indian culture and an eye for telling detail. She can move from tender compassion to sensuality to raging hatred and is a compelling teller of stories. — The Hindu Literary Supplement












Special insight on Books written by Anita Nair, followed by Coffee and Snacks.


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