Dancing With The Two-Headed Tigress
  • Published: 1 August 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552773232
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $19.99

Dancing With The Two-Headed Tigress

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Witty and glamorous first novel about an Indian country cousin's visit to her relatives in London, from a young British-Asian author with a sharp comic eye.

Set in England, India and Ireland, a comic tale of fish out of water.

When her boorish father dies, fat, unsophisticated Mousumi is sent from India to her cosmopolitan relations in London. For the glamour of the western world, she leaves behind both her forlorn mother and an amorous shopkeeper.

On arrival, she is met by the Majumdar family: Prakash - a doctor with too much heart, great cook and man-about-the-house; Tuhina - a successful investment banker and indulgent mother; and Darshini - a nonchalant eighteen-year-old, audacious coin-flipper and possessor of ethereal beauty. Such an offbeat household terrifies Mousumi - how will she fit in? Can she meet their high standards? And will she begin to question the life she has known?

A witty social comedy of cultural misunderstanding and people who simply don't get on.
  • Published: 1 August 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552773232
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Tina Biswas

Tina Biswas was born in 1978. She studied PPE at Oxford and is now writing full time. She is at work on her second novel.

Praise for Dancing With The Two-Headed Tigress

A beautiful debut that mixes humour with biting social commentary.

Cosmopolitan Magazine

Biswas proves a natural writer with a nice turn of phrase.

Guardian

A comedy of manners ... charmingly told.

Financial Times

One to watch.

Image Magazine, Ireland

This fast paced debut gives us the age-old dilemma of family struggle told in frank funny language by a new name to watch.

Nottingham Evening Post

A gritty, sharp, social comedy. Like Monica Ali's Brick Lane, but funnier.

Elle Magazine

A delightful first novel about a young Indian called Mousumi visiting her sophisticated relations in London ... A coming-of-age story with a difference.

Oxford Times
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