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LEELA'S BOOK |
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| Author Name: |
ALICE ALBINIA |
| Publisher Name: |
RANDOM HOUSE |
| ISBN: |
9788184001228 |
| Edition: |
HARDBACK |
| Language: |
ENGLISH |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Publication Date: |
13TH MAY 2011 |
| Price: |
 499.00 |
| List Price: |
399.00 |
| You Save: |
100 |
| Availablity: |
Yes |
| Shipping Time: |
3 -4 days |
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| About Book |
Leela—alluring, taciturn, haunted—is moving back to Delhi from New York. She knows
her return will unsettle many lives. Twenty-five years ago her sister was seduced by Vyasa, a young
university lecturer. Now Vyasa, an eminent Sanskrit scholar, is preparing for the unlikely marriage of
his son, Ash, to the child of a Hindu nationalist. Compounding Leela’s disruptive presence, Vyasa’s
hedonistic daughter Bharati arrives from London, reluctantly leaving her cosmopolitan university life
to see Ash married. He, meanwhile, has fallen in love with his brother-in-law to be.
Gleefully presiding over the drama is Ganesh—divine, elephant-headed scribe of India’s great epic,
the Mahabharata. The family patriarchs may think they have arranged the wedding for their own
selfish ends, but according to Ganesh it is he who is directing events —in a bid to save Leela, his
beloved heroine, from his devious enemy Vyasa.
Turning to fiction after an award-winning travel book, Alice Albinia has written a brilliantly playful
and genre-defying first novel. Ambitious and entertaining, Leela’s Book weaves a tale of contemporary
Delhi that crosses religious and social boundaries, reaching back into the origins of the Mahabharata
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