Ebook {Epub PDF} Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal

Haunting Bombay An affluent Bombay family shares an ominous twilight ritual, the bolting of a certain door every night at sunset, the locking away of a forgotten past. One night, Pinky Mittal defies her family and throws open the door, setting the past free and unleashing a secret that has the power to destroy herself and the one she loves most. Full of insights into life, death, and the beyond in India, Shilpa Agarwal's Haunting Bombay is a memorable novel of exceptional merit. Haunting Bombay is one of those stories. With descriptive, lyrical prose and wonderful imagery of post-modern India, this story is about love, heartache, difficult life-decisions and being a woman in a society where only the privileged seem to matter.5/5(6).

Agarwal, Shilpa, Haunting Bombay / Shilpa Agarwal. p. cm. ISBN (hardcover) 1. Young women—India—Bombay—Fiction. 2. Family life—India—Bombay—Fiction. 3. Family secrets—Fiction. 4. Bombay (India)—Fiction. 5. Domestic fiction. gsafd I. Title. PSG37H38 '.6—dc22 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Shilpa Agarwal's novel, Haunting Bombay, tells the story of the Mittal family, three generations living under the same roof. Secrets cannot be hidden forever. And the dark family secret in the Mittal household would soon be let loose by the unbolting of a door by an innocent girl. Pinky is thirteen years old. Shilpa Agarwal is the author of Haunting Bombay (April , Soho Press), a bestselling literary ghost story set in 's India that weaves together a gripping mystery and haunting supernatural spirits in a story of power and powerlessness, voice and silence in modern India. Haunting Bombay will be published internationally in Italy, Spain.

Agarwal, Shilpa, – Haunting Bombay / Shilpa Agarwal. p. cm. ISBN (hardcover) 1. Young women—India—Bombay—Fiction. 2. Family life—India—Bombay—Fiction. 3. Family secrets—Fiction. 4. Bombay (India)—Fiction. 5. Domestic fiction. gsafd I. Title. PSG37H38 '.6—dc22 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Haunting Bombay An affluent Bombay family shares an ominous twilight ritual, the bolting of a certain door every night at sunset, the locking away of a forgotten past. One night, Pinky Mittal defies her family and throws open the door, setting the past free and unleashing a secret that has the power to destroy herself and the one she loves most. Read "Haunting Bombay A Novel" by Shilpa Agarwal available from Rakuten Kobo. This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller is “[an] intriguing debut [that] seeks to give voice to the dispossessed through.