Himalayan Love Story

With this haunting novel about romantic loss and fatalism, Namita Gokhale confirms her reputation as one of India’s finest writers, and one with the rare gift of seeing and recording the epic in ordinary lives. This is the story of Parvati, young, beautiful and doomed, and Mukul Nainwal, the local boy made good who returns to the Nainital of his youth to search for the only woman he has ever loved. Told in the voices of these two exiles from life, this spare, sensitive book is a compelling read.

‘‘ ‘A tender love story lifted by the grace of the narrative.’— India Today‘A story of fierce sexuality and unrequited love, A Himalayan Love Story is Himalayan in scale and setting.’— Cosmopolitan‘ A Himalayan Love Story…flits by you with all the softness of a Kumaoni shadow yet stays within you with the shy resonance of leaves falling on a sunlit hillside…Gokhale’s characterisation is so powerful and real, it seems the writer has a stealthy knack of almost whispering in your ear as you read along, without the subjects ever intruding…The best writers live in the real world of fiction. Namita Gokhale seems to have moved in a long time ago.’— India Today