Tranquebar Press and The Madras Book Club invite you to a reading from If I Could Tell You, the latest novel from the acclaimed writer, Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, July 5, 6.30pm at Taj Connemara, Chennai.The writer, Tishani Doshi, will be in conversation with the author.
RSVP: Sumathi: +91 44 2891501
Amrita Talwar: Amrita.Talwar@gmail.com
About the book:
If I Could Tell You is a novel from Indian writer and journalist Soumya Bhattacharya.
The story I shall tell you is about failures. It is largely a story of hope thwarted, of promises broken. One of the reasons why I wanted to write these letters to you was to explain; but it was also, as though through writing them, I would come to understand. Through the writing, I hope to glimpse, before it is too late, some sort of pattern, some structure to the random events of the past few years. Words mean more than anything else to me. Perhaps they will to you one day too, when you read this.
An unnamed narrator writes a series of letters to his daughter, explaining how his life has gone wrong. The letters, spanning the narrator's life in India and England, from the 1970s till the stock market crash of 2008 and having as their unwavering focus his daughter and the relationship between them, speak of mislaid dreams and trust betrayed.
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