Witness the night /
Desai, Kishwar.
Witness the night / Kishwar Desai. - London : Simon & Schuster, 2012. - 277 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: Beautiful, 2010.
In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl is found tied to a bed inside a townhouse where 13 people lie dead. The girl is alive, but she has been beaten and abused. She is held in the local prison, awaiting interrogation for the murders she is believed by the local people to have committed.
2010 Costa First Novel Award
9781471101526 (pbk.) : £7.99
Abused children--India--Punjab--Fiction.
Women social workers--India--Punjab--Fiction.
Girls--Crimes against--India--Punjab--Fiction.
General.
Witness the night / Kishwar Desai. - London : Simon & Schuster, 2012. - 277 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: Beautiful, 2010.
In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl is found tied to a bed inside a townhouse where 13 people lie dead. The girl is alive, but she has been beaten and abused. She is held in the local prison, awaiting interrogation for the murders she is believed by the local people to have committed.
2010 Costa First Novel Award
9781471101526 (pbk.) : £7.99
Abused children--India--Punjab--Fiction.
Women social workers--India--Punjab--Fiction.
Girls--Crimes against--India--Punjab--Fiction.
General.
