About the Book: Cant A Novel
In an unnamed town lives Nena—surely one of the worlds greatest eccentrics.
Water burns her skin, to the extent that she can neither drink it nor bathe in
it; she survives on 'water capsules and does her ablutions with a mix of herbs
and plants. She speaks several languages and still grieves about the books that
were her childhood companions—that her heartless brother had thrown into the
river. And she exults in telling stories about her late husbands affairs—with a
laughter that precludes sympathy.
Then, in her seventies, she embarks on a journey to track down all her husbands
lovers. The narrator,