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Babyji

Stonewall Book Award Winner

Abha Dawesar

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English
Anchor Books
08 February 2005
A firecracker of a novel featuring a brainy 16-year-old girl with an irrepressible spirit and an awakening libido, BABYJI combines sex and smarts for a surprising view of modern India. AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL.

Sexy, surprising, and subversively wise, Babyji is the story of Anamika Sharma, a spirited student growing up in Delhi. At school she is an ace at quantum physics. At home she sneaks off to her parents' scooter garage to read the Kamasutra. Before long she has seduced an elegant older divorcee and the family servant, and has caught the eye of a classmate coveted by all the boys. With the world of adulthood dancing before her, Anamika confronts questions that would test someone twice her age. Ebullient, unfettered, and introducing one of the most charming heroines in contemporary fiction, Babyji is irresistible.
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Imprint:   Anchor Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 201mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   276g
ISBN:   9781400034567
ISBN 10:   1400034566
Pages:   368
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive

Abha Dawesar was born in 1974 in New Delhi, India, and graduated with honors from Harvard University. She was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellowship and is the author of the novel Miniplanner. She lives in New York and can be reached on her website www.abhadawesar.com.

Reviews for Babyji: Stonewall Book Award Winner

“If Lolita had grown up in India, she might have debuted in a novel like this. Babyji is riveting, a great gift to read.” –Vendela Vida, author of And Now You Can Go “I loved Babyji. It’s a cunning lithe defiant sexy tiger’s roar of a book.” –Ali Smith, author of Hotel World “From the moment Abha Dawesar dropped me slap-bang into the middle of Anamika’s complicated life, I found myself fascinated. How often does one encounter a sixteen-year-old who applies her preternatural intellect not only to her far-ranging sexual conquests but also to quantum physics and India’s complex caste politics? Irreverent yet tender, compassionate yet hard-headed, precociously wise and undeniably sexy, Dawesar’s Anamika channels a wonderful new Indian reality. More power to her.” –Meera Nair, author of Video “I loved Babyji. It’s a cunning lithe defiant sexy tiger’s roar of a book.” –Ali Smith, author of Hotel World


  • Winner of Lambda Literary Award 2005
  • Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Fiction) 2005
  • Winner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2006
  • Winner of Stonewall Book Award (Literature) 2006

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