'Memories of Rain marks the triumphant debut of a gifted and compelling voice...Gupta has built upon tradition and rendered it new and compelling. And she has done so in writing of the highest quality, perceptive, precise, and wholly original.'--Shashi Tharoor, The Washington Post

Memories of Rain

GUPTA, SUNETRA

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Set around a brilliant young woman who marries and settles into a home, assuming the guardianship of an orphaned niece, this tells of how fateful choices lead to unforseen consequences. In so doing, it traces society's blue prints for women, family and sexuality and reveals their illusory comforts.

Glassblower's Breath

South Asia Books

This novel tells the story of three generations, and of a house in Calcutta called Mandalay. A man in his late thirties is last seen entering a punt on the Cherwell in Oxford. When no further trace of him is found, Debendranath Roy is presumed drowned. He leaves behind a pale and languishing widow in Oxford, and a mystery that takes twenty years to unfold.

Sin of Colour

Debendranath Roy, in his mid-thirties, last seen entering a punt on the Cherwell, is believed drowned. Twenty years pass. His father has died, the woman he loved has grown more beautiful, while his English wife has grown reconciled to widowhood. Then Debendranth returns, to explain his actions and ask for help. The real hero of Sunetra Gupta's new novel is a house in Calcutta. Called Mandalay by its first British owner, it passes into the hands of the wealthy Roy family, and it is to Mandalay that Indranath Roy in the early thirties brings his clever but childlike young bride Reba. The family's fortunes fluctuate, independence and partition robs them of some of their wealth, but they remain in the house. It is the next generation and Reba's sons that eventually abandon it to ruin, making their own fortunes away from Calcutta. When Debendranath Roy returns to life it is to the gates of Mandalay, he comes expecting to find it as he left it, but instead he finds ghosts of his past.

Contemporary

Firebird Distributing

Moni falls in love with her brother's English classmate, and leaves Calcutta to start a new life with him in London, where she faces prejudice, sexism, and betrayal

Memories of Rain: A Novel

British & Irish

Grove Pr

A brilliant young woman settles down, but instead of happiness, she finds that society's vision of the ideal woman offers only illusory comforts. By the author of Memories of Rain.

The Glassblower's Breath

'Memories of Rain marks the triumphant debut of a gifted and compelling voice...Gupta has built upon tradition and rendered it new and compelling. And she has done so in writing of the highest quality, perceptive, precise, and wholly original.'--Shashi Tharoor, The Washington Post

Literary

GROVE PRESS

A superbly crafted novel from award-winning Indian novelist Sunetra Gupta After years of absence, American travel writer Max Gate returns to Bengal, to the beach home of his longtime friend, the businessman Byron Mallick. The occasion is a funeral: for Damini, fervent investigative journalist and founder of a women's shelter, with whom Max once collaborated, until ultimately she scorned the book he wrote on their work together. It is irrefutable that Byron Mallick donated not milk, but milk adulterated with chalk, to the women and children at Damini's shelter-but did he also, to save his reputation, have her killed? The weight of this question burdens each character in this intricate, superbly crafted novel-Max; his former brother-in-law Piers O'Reilly, convinced of Byron's guilt; and Damini's cousin and Byron's former ward Ela, whose affair with Max has haunted both their lives, ending his marriage and setting him unaccountably adrift. Sunetra Gupta's consummate prose recreates the ache and complication of memory, as Max considers the tantalizing ambiguities of each of their pasts, the exquisite layers of emotion and action out of which, perhaps, the truth about Byron may be revealed.

So Good in Black

United States

Clockroot Books

Debendranath Roy, presumed dead, leaves behind a pale, languishing wife and a mystery that takes 20 years to unfold. His hidden passion for his brother's wife, his own wife's unrequited love and his niece's obsession to uncover the truth create the beauty, power and tension of this story. A Sin of Color tells the story of three generations, and of a house in Calcutta called Mandalay. It is to Mandalay that Debendranath's father brings his young bride after their wedding. And it is to Mandalay that Debendranath's older brother brings his own wife, the woman with whom Debendranath falls in love. Fleeing the house, his family and his ill-fated love for a married woman, Debendranath leaves for England. But he cannot escape his passion-and years later, neither can his niece, Niharika, a beautiful and talented writer.

A Sin of Color: A Novel of Obsession

Sourcebooks Landmark

Orion Publishing Co

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Memories of Rain

Glassblower's Breath

Sin of Colour

Sin of Colour

Memories of Rain: A Novel

The Glassblower's Breath

Memories of Rain: A Novel

So Good in Black

A Sin of Color: A Novel of Obsession

The Glassblower's Breath