The Death of Mr. Love: A Novel

By Indra Sinha

Book Overview

A sensuous and compelling novel of passion and vengeance, fact and fiction based on a real-life murder in 1950s Bombay. . . . " A] brilliant insider-outsider account of India."--Daily Mail

The past is never finished with because the present is its perpetually unfolding consequence. The reverberations from the notorious Nanavati society murder in 1950s Bombay--the fatal consequence of a doomed love triangle involving an Indian playboy, his married English lover, and her jealous Indian husband--were so great they reached the offices of Prime Minister Nehru and changed the face of the Indian justice system. But there was a connected crime, an unreported and unpunished event so cruel it destroyed the lives of two women. . . .

In contemporary London, Bhalu, a bookseller, unexpectedly meets his childhood friend, Phoebe, 40 years after their idyllic childhood in India. Together they will return to their homeland to solve the mystery of this long-buried crime and exact revenge for the women involved--their mothers. But in the simmering bazaars of Bombay, the adversary they seek still wields enormous power and soon the friends find themselves in real, terrifying danger.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060562463
• ISBN13: 9780060562465
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Love, Doubt, Betrayal. Void.

One death, long ago, stains the innocence of the present with the pus of ancient corruption. It is a search for truth, rather than revenge, that drives the story, but it proves to be a truth that brings no release.India is evoked with astonishing richness and depth, while remaing a backdrop for the characters, who are vivid and rounded, but always with more to reveal as the dream draws them on.I read this book some months ago, but it haunts me still.