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    Thirteen Kinds of Love
    Thirteen Kinds of Love
    Thirteen Kinds of Love
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    Thirteen Kinds of Love

    By Soumya Bhattacharya

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    A child cares for a family of pigeons nesting in his balcony; is his parents' relationship as diseased as the illness ravaging the baby pigeons? A man mulls over desire engendered by love and that which springs from mere lust. A couple confesses to the reader the reasons for the widening chasm between them. An intricate mesh of relationships and lives, Thirteen Kinds of Love follows the fortunes of several families living and working in an apartment block in Mumbai. This is a book about loving and losing, about trying to redeem oneself, about attempts to remake and refashion what has been torn asunder. Soumya Bhattacharya draws the reader into the narrative using his deeply evocative, distinctive prose. This is an astute exploration of how we live and love today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 25, 2019
    ISBN9789353572778
    Thirteen Kinds of Love
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    Soumya Bhattacharya

    Soumya Bhattacharya is the author of five previous books of fiction, non-fiction and memoir. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Sydney Morning Herald and Granta, among others. He is the managing editor at Hindustan Times and lives in New Delhi.

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