My Beautiful Shadow

By Radhika Jha

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About the book

I have a secret. I belong to a club. And my club is the biggest, best kept secret in all of Tokyo. Kayo-chan goes about her life, raising a family and coping with inquisitive neighbours in a claustrophobic suburban neighbourhood in Japan. One day, her husband hands her a credit card. Her first purchase: a Louis Vuitton tote bag worth 2,00,000 yen. Thrilled by the comfort of this buy, Kayo ventures out a few days later, to acquire a few more things. And before she knows it, the need has become a hunger, an obsession that threatens to take over completely. Then a chance meeting reunites her with her childhood friend Tomoko, and she is swept into a world of glamour and fashion she finds irresistible. Until the phone calls begin. My Beautiful Shadow is a powerful novel about one woman’s addiction and entrapment, and a mesmerizing tale of consumerism gone mad.

Pages: 208

Available in: Hardback

Language: English

Radhika Jha

Radhika Jha was born in Delhi in 1970, studied anthropology at Amherst College, did her Masters in Political Science at the University of Chicago and was an exchange student at the University of Paris (V). She is the author of three critically acclaimed books – Lanterns on their Horns, Smell (Prix Guerlain 2002) and The Elephant & The Maruti. She has worked for Hindustan Times and Businessworld. She has also worked for the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, where she started up the Interact project for the education of the children of victims of terrorism in India. She lived for six years in Tokyo and now lives in Beijing.