Dhulibasan by Sunil Gangopadhyay [Hardcover]

"Mandira Dutta, a girl from Kolkata, went to London to study Political Science and within seven months, she married Thomas Brockway, the nephew of Fenner Brockway, a once-famous friend of India and a leader of the Labour Party. During his student days, Tom Brockway was a leader of the radical Socialist Party, but later he leaned towards parliamentary democracy. By the time Tom became an MP for the Labour Party, Mandira and Tom had already celebrated their silver wedding anniversary. Their son is a doctor living in America, while their daughter has chosen to live with a young poet-journalist in a non-marital relationship.

At this juncture, Mandira suddenly experiences a profound existential crisis. After twenty-six years of married life, she abruptly draws the curtain on it and chooses a different path—an independent life. Partly in that country, partly in this one. But why? What is the crisis that uproots a middle-aged woman from her accustomed life? This intensely intriguing and uniquely flavored novel explores the complex and profound questions surrounding this crisis."