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Synopsis
Françoise, an Australian photographer, travels to Bhopal in India, where 20 years earlier a gas leak killed thousands. There she meets Naga, a Tibetan refugee whose family died in the disaster, and Arkay, a Scottish traveler battling addiction, who has found solace in Buddhism. As a testament to their time together Françoise assembles photographs from their lives into an album, the Red Book. The photographs tell their stories of love, struggle and transformation—pointing to the people they have been and who they will become. The three narrators'
beautifully realized voices show how lives entwine and split apart, and the story captures the irresistible lure of India for outsiders, the promise of its spirituality, and its layered history.
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About the Author
Meaghan Delahunt’s first novel In the Casa Azul was nominated for the Orange Prize and won the Saltire First Book Prize, a Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year prize, and a Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book.
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A collection of written snapshots from the lives of three central characters, Delahunt’s novel is built around the gas leak that killed thousands in Bhopal, India, in 1984. The powerful pictures taken of the aftermath of the Bhopal disaster inspire Francoise to pursue a career in photography. Fleeing the demise of an eight-year relationship, she travels to Delhi, where she stays with a family who once employed Naga, a Tibetan refugee, as a houseboy. Naga fled the night of the Bhopal tragedy, and the family hasn’t heard from him since. Francoise eventually journeys to Bhopal to take up a photographic residency and finds Naga, who is now a Buddhist monk. Through him she meets Arkay, a damaged Scotsman who, after years of wandering, found a purpose to his life once he became a monk. Piercing character studies mix with evocative, powerful prose to create a vivid picture of three people trying to make sense of their lives, and find ways to break down the walls they have built up around themselves. --Kristine Huntley
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- PublisherGranta UK
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1847080634
- ISBN 13 9781847080639
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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