Thwarted Dreams of Women in Their Constant Life:The Thousand Faces of Night

The Thousand Faces of Night (1992), the debut novel of Githa Hariharan which was awarded the common wealth Writers’ Prize for the first best novel written in the Eurasian region, examines thoroughly the particular conditions of Indian women characterised with self-abnegation in their different appearances. In the novel, we find an analysis and explanation of a set of circumstances. The mind or the deepest thought of Indian woman is generally influenced by violent powers that control unfairly her acceptance and admittance of defeat resulting in the varieties of reactions that include protest, revenge and violence.