Book description
Aseem, naïve and earnest, has just returned to Delhi to look for a job
after completing his business studies. Disillusioned with his father
Avinash's uninspiring life, and desperately trying to carve a path for
himself independent of his overbearingly interfering aunt, Menaka, and
her ad-man husband, Aseem finds himself drawn to Swati, a Maoist
sympathizer working in Delhi's slums. As his life takes one surprising
turn after another, Aseem comes face to face with a Maoist revolutionary
and an adivasi commander fighting a covert battle in the forests of
Bastar, discovers facets of his father's past that he could not have
imagined, and finds himself working with Menaka and her husband to
market a godman. Rich in vivid imagery, Through the Forest, Darkly is an
uncompromising yet poignant depiction of love and ideals betrayed,
violence and cruelty, and a society torn apart by irreconcilable
divides.
