Alchemy of Desire A Novel

Name: Alchemy of Desire A Novel
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ISBN: 9780060888589

ISBN-10: 006088858X

ISBN-13: 9780060888589

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Authors: Tarun J. Tejpal

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In turn-of-the-millennium India, a penniless would-be writer halts work on his novel only to feed his ceaseless desire for his beautiful wife. Then a chance occurrence moves the lovers to a sprawling old house in a mist-shrouded spur of the lower Himalayas, where a set of diaries written by a glamorous American adventuress is uncovered during renovations. Her words irresistibly draw the writer away from his beloved, thrusting him through the hole of history into another world and time, revealing dark secrets and overturning all certainties. Inventive, playful, heartbreaking, brimming with ideas and memorable characters, The Alchemy of Desire is a major literary work by one of the most…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

TARUN J. TEJPAL is a journalist, publisher, novelist, and founder of India's leading news magazine, Tehelka. He has been named one of India's most influential people by The Guardian, Businessweek and Asiaweek. A celebrated literary novelist as well as a journalist, his fiction has been awarded France's Prix Mille Pages and was a finalist for the Man Asian Literary Prize. His debut novel, The Alchemy of Desire, was hailed by V.S. Naipaul as "a new and brilliantly original novel from India." Tejpal lives in New Delhi.