Babyji

Babyji

Babyji is a novel by Abha Dawesar first published in 2005. Set in 1980s Delhi, India, it recounts the coming of age and the sexual adventures and fantasies of a 16-year-old bespectacled schoolgirl, the only child of a Brahmin family. The three simultaneous "affairs" she has in the course of the novel are all secret, and all with members of her own gender: two with older women and one with a classmate. The title of the book points to the old custom of venerating an elder by referring to them with the suffix -ji added to their name . Ironically, in the novel it is the family servant who, though...
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Author:Abha Dawesar
Genre:Fiction
Year published:2005
Number of editions:2

Honors and Awards

YearAward Won
2006 Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award
2005 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
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YearAward Nomination
2006 Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award
2005 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
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Author of Babyji

Abha Dawesar
Abha Dawesar
Age:38
Birthplace:New Delhi

Abha Dawesar is an Indian novelist writing in English. Dawesar is a Harvard graduate who was awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts fiction fellowship. She currently lives in New York City.

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Literary Genres

Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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    What year was the title "Babyji" first distributed?
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    The book is classified as: Fiction.

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