The Death of Mr.Love - Softcover

Sinha, Indra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743207009 ISBN 13: 9780743207003

Publisher: Scribner, 2003

Synopsis

Constructed around the true Nanavati murder case, Indra Sinha's first novel offers a rare and fascinating insight into the psychosexual undercurrents of Indian life. In a family of storytellers, there was one tale never told...The reverberations from the notorious Nanavati society murder in 1950s Bombay - involving a love triangle between an Indian playboy, an Englishwoman and her jealous Indian husband - were so great they reached the offices of Prime Minister Nehru. What is not known is that a second, connected crime, so cruel that it destroyed the lives of two women, went unreported and has remained unpunished. Until now. In present-day London the women's children meet. Driven by grief and anger they return to India to uncover the mystery of the crime that caused their mothers' suffering and exact their cold revenge. But in the bazaars of today's Bombay, a city racked and burned by riots, their adversary still enjoys huge power, and the friends soon find themselves in real, terrifying danger.

About this title

About the Author:

Indra Sinha was born in India and spent his childhood in Bombay and the hills of the Western Ghats. His work of non-fiction, THE CYBERGYPSIES, met with widespread critical acclaim. He lives in Sussex.

From Booklist:

Drawing on the real-life murder of an Indian playboy in 1950s Bombay, first-novelist Sinha examines the effects of the past on a mild-mannered London bookseller, Bhalu, whose encounter with a childhood friend, Phoebe, at his mother's funeral rekindles questions about what prompted their parents to leave India. Jumping between the past--as reconstructed through the journals of Phoebe's mother--and the growing crisis in Bhalu's marriage, the novel slowly, hypnotically, unravels the story of a hidden crime, lost in the wake of the playboy's murder, a crime that could hold the answers to all Bhalu and Phoebe's lingering questions. Life in Bombay, in the present and in the years following India's emancipation, is evoked in a rainstorm of sensual detail, as Bhalu and Phoebe attempt to solve the decades-old mystery and, simultaneously, make sense of their feelings for one another. Sinha sometimes seems to lose control of her many-tentacled story, but the reader's interest is held by the simmering passions and the vivid atmospherics. A most promising debut, even if the author's reach slightly exceeds his grasp. Bill Ott
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About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743207009
• ISBN 13: 9780743207003
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592