The Hope Factory is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2013 by Lavanya Sankaran
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by The Dial Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
DIAL PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Sankaran, Lavanya.
The hope factory: a novel / Lavanya Sankaran.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-8129-8462-0
1. Industrialists—Fiction. 2. Conflict of generations—
Fiction. 3. Bangalore (India)—Fiction. 4. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PR9499.4.S26H67 2013
823’.92—dc23 012023483
Jacket design and illustration:
Francesca Leoneschi/Andrea Cavallini/theworldofdot
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