Polite Society by Mahesh Rao - ISBN: 9781472267214
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Polite Society

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    9 March 2020

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Summary

‘Is it possible to marry a book? Because POLITE SOCIETY is so funny, smart, sophisticated, and captivating, you just want to spend your whole life with it. It was love at first sight from the very first page’ Kevin Kwan, author of CRAZY RICH ASIANS

Ania Khurana is beautiful, clever and in need of entertainment. She’s wrapped Delhi society around her little finger, and now her creativity requires a new vista. Then she finds love for her spinster aunt, rescuing her from a life watc…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472267214
ISBN-10:1472267214
Author:Mahesh Rao
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:Tinder Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:9 March 2020
Weight:256g
Dimensions:432mm x 264mm x 138mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

With biting wit, this send-up of high society deflates social strata while bringing tenderness and romance to its comedy of manners - Esquire: Best Books of Summer 2019

A witty, perfectly observed take on India’s elite and the rarely smooth path to finding true love - Heat magazine

A deep and utter treat: a sly, witty Delhi reinvention of Emma. Rao writes like Vikram Seth’s naughty younger brother and I want to have cocktails and gossip with him at once - Patrick Gale

Witty, smart, compelling - Kamila Shamsie

The only way to write an Austentatious novel - Financial Times

About The Author

Mahesh Rao

Mahesh Rao is the author of The Smoke is Rising, which won the Tata First Book Award for fiction and was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Crossword Award. One Point Two Billion, his second book, is a critically acclaimed collection of short stories. He lives most of the year in Mysore, India.

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