[Scroll.in]‘The Book of Everlasting Things’: A novel that is gained in imagination, squandered by the prose
The Book of Everlasting Things marks Aanchal Malhotra’s return to familiar ground – the long Partition of the Indian subcontinent. The narrative landscape, however, is changed: in her debut work of fiction, Malhotra braids the lives of imaginary people and objects with real places and times. Unfortunately, what results ...