# Mistress

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- Book: [Mistress](https://www.bookquiver.com/nair-anita/mistress) ([Mistress.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nair-anita/mistress.md))
- Authors: [Anita Nair](https://www.bookquiver.com/nair-anita)
- Publisher: arcadia_books
- ISBN: 978-19-0514-789-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2009-02-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Christopher, a young travel writer, arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala to meet Koman, a famous kathakali dancer. Immediately he is sucked into a world of masks and repressed emotions. Koman is instantly drawn to the enigmatic young man with his incessant questions about the past-but so is his niece Radha. Excluded from this triangle is Shyam, Radha’s husband, who can only watch helplessly as she embraces Chris with a passion that he has never been able to draw from her. As the drama unfolds, the nuances and contradictions of the relationships being made-and unmade-come alive in this searing novel of art and adultery.