A brilliant young Indian woman is caught between her own almost limitless capacity for experience - emotional, intellectual, sexual - and the desire of the men in her life to capture and define her. Set against the backdrops of Calcutta, New York and London, she struggles to conform.

The Glassblower's Breath

sunetra-gupta

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Moonlight Into Marzipan

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Phoenix House

Memories of Rain

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion

A sin of colour

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

Women Unlimited

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