Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 296
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140290478
Description
Now in paper back edition, India's most widely read author has produced an uninhibited, erotic and endlessly entertaining celebration of love, sex and passion.
Recently separated from his nagging, ill-tempered wife of thirteen years, millionaire businessman Mohan Kumar decides to reinvent his life. Convinced that 'lust is the true foundation of love', he embarks on an audacious plan: he will advertise for paid lady companions to share his bed and his life. Thus begins his journey of easy, unbridled sexuality his in the company of some remarkable women.
There is Sarojini Bharadwaj, the demure professor from small-town Haryana who surprises Mohan with her ardor and sexual energy; Molly Gomes, the free-spirited masseuse from Goa, mistress of the sensual impulse; and Susanthika Goonatilleke, the diminutive seductress from Sri Lanka. After each after ends and before the next begins, Mohan finds solace in the practiced charms of his obliging maid, Dhanno, and in the memories of his first loves: the American Jessica Browne, to whom he lost his virginity, and the Pakistani Yasmeen Wanchoo, who brought him the heady passion of an older woman.
In 'The Company of Women', his first novel in ten years, Khushwant Singh, India's most widely read author, has produced an uninhibited, erotic and endlessly entertaining celebration of love, sex and passion.
Reviews:
…the book is a triumph.
— Outlook
…the most erotic modern novel written by an Indian…
—India Abroad News Service
Contents
Author's Note
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER I : THE SECRET LIFE OF MOHAN KUMAR
A New Beginning
Dhanno
Letter from Rewari
Sarojini
After Sarojini
CHAPTER II : THE MEMOIRS OF MOHAN KUMAR
I, Mohan Kumar
Jessica Browne
Yasmeen
Homecoming
Getting Married
Honeymoon in the Shivaliks
Mary Joseph
How the Marriage Deed
Molly Gomes
Susanthika
CHAPTER III : THE LAST DAYS OF MOHAN KUMAR
A Bai in Bombay
A Fatal Illness
The Death of Mohan Kumar