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082			_a823.92 _bRAI
100			_aLalwani, Raisha
245		0	_a The diary on the fifth floor _c/ Raisha Lalwani
250			_a1st edition
260			_bNew Delhi: Rupa publications, _c2018
300			_a xiii, 167 pages ; 20 cm
520			_a'A woman leaves her infant at home but finds her on a busy street in an unexpected turn of events. Another woman wakes up in a flight hours later, befuddled, in the strangest circumstance. A fascinating tale of a twenty-five-year-old woman that takes hold of us from the moment she enters the fifth floor of a hospital; more precisely, the psychiatric ward. Visibly terrified, she clutches at her clothbound diary, caught in the horns of a terrible dilemma whether or not to hand over the diary to the doctor. She fears that she will be declared insane if her tangled web of thoughts unspooling in dark mysterious stories is read by the dissecting eye of a doctor. What does this diary contain. As the novel progresses, we are drawn into characters and stories that are toe-curling, strange, and haunting in their raw intensity. What is the story of this woman. What secrets lie in the pages of her diary. And most importantly, what happens on the fifth floor...
650			_aFiction
650			_aWomen Fiction
942			_cENGLISH
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