WHEN local author Shubnum Khan set to work on her new novel, The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil, she wanted to write a love story. “But when I started it, I realised you couldn’t tell a story about love without telling a story about life,” she says.
Akbar Manzil isn’t a person but rather a sprawling mansion near Durban and this is the epic tale of two women who live in