# Aftertaste

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- Book: [Aftertaste](https://www.bookquiver.com/namita-devidayal/aftertaste) ([Aftertaste.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/namita-devidayal/aftertaste.md))
- Authors: [Namita Devidayal](https://www.bookquiver.com/namita-devidayal)
- Publisher: vintage_books
- ISBN: 978-81-8400-108-2
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2010-07-01
- Language: en_IN
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

In her bestselling novel Aftertaste (over 5000 hardback copies sold), Namita Devidayal provides a captivating account of a baniya family settled in Punjab headed by a matriarch, Mummyji, who is in hospital after a stroke. The Todarmal family, glued together by money not love, includes the weak and emasculated Rajan Papa who is desperately in need of cash; Sunny, the dynamic head of the business with an ugly marriage and a demanding mistress; Suman, the spoilt and greedy beauty of the family who is determined to get her hands on Mummyji’s best jewels; and Saroj, Suman’s unlucky sister, who has always lived in her shadow. Each one of them wants Mummyji to die