Phantom lovers: two novellas

By:

Moulik, Achala

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Niyogi 2023Description: 382pISBN:

9788196405335

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

CS MOU A

Summary: Phantom Lovers comprises two lyrical novellas–With Fate Conspire and Wait. With Fate Conspire narrates how, despite the antagonism between the imperial British and the subjugated Indians, a young British magistrate is entranced by a zamindar’s daughter in Bengal. On a stormy night they elope to their planned paradise–until the Mutiny of 1857 intrudes on their lives. A century later in London their predicament is mysteriously reflected in the turbulent fate of another Englishman and an Indian girl. Wait! is about two lovers in Rome–an Afghan academic and an Indian woman who plan an idyllic life together. Then the violent coup of April 1978 in Afghanistan forever changes their destinies and of that nation. Caught in these tempests the separated lovers in both stories defy danger and despair as they travel across strange frontiers of time and space to find their lost beloveds. With haunting beauty the award-winning author describes the destinies of the lovers against the dramatic background of the British Raj in Bengal as well as the conflicts of our times across Kabul, Rome and London.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	CS MOU A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out to Silverwood Hostel (Silverwood)	2025-08-30	177185

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Author is a Pushkin Medal Winner.

Phantom Lovers comprises two lyrical novellas–With Fate Conspire and Wait. With Fate Conspire narrates how, despite the antagonism between the imperial British and the subjugated Indians, a young British magistrate is entranced by a zamindar’s daughter in Bengal. On a stormy night they elope to their planned paradise–until the Mutiny of 1857 intrudes on their lives. A century later in London their predicament is mysteriously reflected in the turbulent fate of another Englishman and an Indian girl. Wait! is about two lovers in Rome–an Afghan academic and an Indian woman who plan an idyllic life together. Then the violent coup of April 1978 in Afghanistan forever changes their destinies and of that nation.
Caught in these tempests the separated lovers in both stories defy danger and despair as they travel across strange frontiers of time and space to find their lost beloveds. With haunting beauty the award-winning author describes the destinies of the lovers against the dramatic background of the British Raj in Bengal as well as the conflicts of our times across Kabul, Rome and London.

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