Nair’s murderer is sinister and the motivations are complex. The setting is Indian and easily relatable. The novel explores the realities of the transgender community and corporation politics with great familiarity. The plot itself unfolds in systemized twists and...
Anyone who lives in India has seen the Po-liss as perpetrators: of ill-will, no sympathy and worse manners. It doesn’t help that before you see their cold eyes, you see their protruding bellies. Now Anita Nair, being a chronicler of the times, gives you both these...
A departure from her usual literary fiction, this is the author’s first foray into the literary noir genre. The psychological thriller is soaked in the sights and smells of Bengaluru and introduces quite a few interesting characters, including the hero Inspector Borei...
Cut Like Wound by Anita Nair is a remarkable departure in genre by the much-acclaimed author of books like Lessons in Forgetting, The Better Man and Ladies Coupe. This is a psycho-thriller, and to give due credit to the author, there is adequate suspense to keep...
The plotting is tight, the setting is familiar to Indian readers and the characters are rivetting. The Trainspottiest side of Edinburgh couldn’t have hosted Cut Like Wound’s startling scenes of ritual worship or its lively transgenders. Even the venal corporator is...
Nair achieves a pleasing restraint in the key passages, and nowhere does this show more than in a tense climax, which leaves a few things unsaid and doesn’t try too hard to tie up every loose strand….I also found this book consistently interesting as a...
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