The Red Letters My Father's Enchanted Period - Continents of Exile
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The story has its origins in the sixties, when Mehta by chance finds his father weeping uncontrollably on his mother's shoulder during a New York dinner party. As a result, the son begins to unravel a family mystery that takes him on a painful and revealing voyage into his father's British past in Simla, the magical hill station. Step-by-step, he is forced to confront his father's passionate clandestine affair with Rasil, an exquisite beauty who in her teens was abducted from her poor family and raped. She was subsequently rescued by a Hindu philanthropist, only to end up trapped in an abusive marriage to a rich businessman. Mehta's exploration of his father's love affair proves painful, as the son realizes that the entanglement, a passing episode in sixty-one years of a loving marriage, had shattering psychological side effects on his mothera close friend of Rasil'sand also on his own life. The Red Letters is Mehta's masterpiece, a work of extraordinary intensity that perfectly re-creates the exotic, closed world of British India.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781560256281 |
Publisher: | Nation Books |
Imprint: | Nation Books |
Pub date: | 03 Oct 2004 |
DEWEY: | 601.954552 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 190 |
Weight: | 367g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 153mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |