Author: Namita Gokhale
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 207
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143028723
Description
With this haunting novel about romantic loss and fatalism, Namita Gokhale confirms her reputation as one of India’s finest writers, and one with the rare gift of seeing and recording the epic in ordinary lives. This is the story of Parvati, young, beautiful and doomed, and Mukul Nainwal, the local boy made good who returns to the Nainital of his youth to search for the only woman he has ever loved. Told in the voices of these two exiles from life, this spare, sensitive book is a compelling read.
EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS
A Himalayan Love Story.. flits by you with all the softness of a Kumaoni shadow yet stays within you with the sky resonance of leaves falling on a sunlit hillside… Gokhale’s characterization is so powerful and real, it seems the writer has a stealthy knack of almost whispering in your ear as you read along, without the subjects ever intruding… The best writers live in the real world of fiction. Namita Gokhale seems to have moved in a long time ago.
-India Today
A story of fierce sexuality and unrequited love, A Himalayan Love Story is Himalayan in scale and setting.
- Cosmopolitan
Contents
PARVATI: THE DANCE OF THE HONEYBEE
MUKUL: DREAMS OF REASON
A Letter from the Past
Homeward Bound
Traveller’s Tales
First Encounters
The Sisters of Eve
Pilgrim’s Progress
Wee Nooke
Dramatis Personae
An Evening Walk
Pitaji, Masterji
High Society
First Love
In Articulo Mortis
The Magnolia Tree
Pasang Rampa
A New Arrival
Apples and oranges
The Territorial Imperative
O Time, Stay Thy Flight!
Incognito
Momento Mori
The Stern Voice of the Daughter of Reason
The Severed Head