A Himalayan Love Story

Author: Namita GokhalePublisher: PenguinYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 207ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143028723 DescriptionWith 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.EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWSA Himalayan Love Story.. flits by you with all the softness of a Kumaoni shadow yet stays within you with the sky resonance of leaves falling on a sunlit hillside… Gokhale’s characterization is so powerful and real, it seems the writer has a stealthy knack of almost whispering in your ear as you read along, without the subjects ever intruding… The best