Kaayaa: A Powerful Contemporary Fiction on Beauty, Identity & the MeToo Fallout | A Satirical, ThoughtProvoking Story of a Plas

A Skilled Plastic Surgeon Is Like A Master Sculptor Whose Material Is The Human Body. ThatS The Credo The Protagonist Of This Novel, Dr Bheem Malik, Lives By. Among His Clientele Are The WhoS Who Of Manhattan, Keen To Submit Themselves To The DoctorS Knife For The Sake Of Fuller Lips, Sleeker Jawlines, Bigger Breasts.Dr Malik Has It All: A Successful Career As New YorkS Topmost Plastic Surgeon, A Beautiful Wife Whose Body Hehas Sculpted Himself And A MotherInLaw, Kasturi, Who Is A Senator. But When His Name Surfaces In A Metoo Scandal, MalikS Life Is Turned Upside Down. His Career Is At Stake, And So Is KasturiS Future In American Politics. In Order To Emerge From This Crisis, Both Must Revisit Their Past And Rediscover The True Meaning Of Love.A Kannada Novel Mostly Set In The United States, Kaayaa (Which Translates To Body) Touches Upon Variouscontemporary Themes, From Sexuality And Disease To Politics And Marriage, And Lays Bare Characters Who Are Torn Between Their Real And Imagined Selves, Each Chasing After Their Own Version Of The American Dream. A Searingly Honest Rumination On The Old Metaphor About Beauty Being Only SkinDeep, This Novel By The Acclaimed Kannada Writer Guruprasad Kaginele Is A Satirical Masterpiece That DoesnT Lose Sight Of The Underlying Tragedy Of Being Human.