Akbar, Prayaag
Entry updated 26 August 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1982- ) Indian journalist, editor and author, whose first novel, Leila (2017), set in a Dystopian Near Future City, presents a dramatic tour through the Keep-like caste- and purity-besotted wall-divided communities of an urban world perhaps too rigid to survive. The protagonist's search for her long-lost daughter deftly exposes the futile savagery of this world. [JC]
Prayaag Akbar
born Kolkata, West Bengal, India: 25 July 1982
works
- Leila: A Novel (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: Simon and Schuster India, 2017) [hb/]
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