


The girl does not openly claim the relationship but agrees to be his "half girlfriend". Stephen’s College in New Delhi, and falls in love with a "high class English-speaking rich Delhi girl" schooled at the Modern School in the same city. ĭedicated to "non English-types", as Chetan Bhagat wrote, the book divulges the sentiments and linguistic struggles of a backward, rural Bhojpuri-laced Hindi-speaking boy from Bihar as he enrolls himself at the prestigious English-medium St. The novel has also been published in Hindi and Gujarati. This is Bhagat's sixth novel, which was released on 1 October 2014 by Rupa Publications. The novel, set in rural Bihar, New Delhi, Patna, and New York, is the story of a Bihari boy on a quest of winning over the girl he loves. Half Girlfriend is an Indian English coming of age, young adult romance novel by Indian author Chetan Bhagat.
