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Finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and for the Governor General's Literary Award this powerful new work about a transgender sex worker in the red light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected task is a gripping literary page turner difficult and moving surprising and tender Anosh Irani's best novel yet and his first with Knopf Canada The Parcel's astonishing heart soul and unforgettable voice is Madhu born a boy but a eunuch by choice who has spe I don't know if I would have read this book had I not happened to catch a radio interview
Anosh Irani á The Parcel doc
The ParcelNt most of her life in a close knit clan of transgender sex workers in Kamathipura the notorious red light district of Bombay Madhu identifies herself as a hijra a person belonging to the third sex neither here nor there man nor woman Now at she has moved away from prostitution her trade since her teens and is forced to beg to support the charismatic head of the hijra clan Gurumai One day Madhu receives a call from Padma Madam the most feared brothel owner in the Remember being stuck in a phase of life that makes you cringe and suffocate You feel so o