A Himalayan Love StoryWith 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. |
Contents
A Letter from the Past 5335 | 60 |
First Encounters | 75 |
Pilgrims Progress | 90 |
An Evening Walk | 109 |
High Society | 123 |
In Articulo Mortis | 140 |
Pasang Rampa | 155 |
Apples and Oranges | 170 |
Incognito | 185 |
The Severed Head | 204 |
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