Leela - alluring, taciturn, haunted - is moving back to Delhi after years of exile in New York. She knows her return will disrupt precariously balanced lives. Twenty years ago her sister Meera died, taking a devastating secret with her. Now, as the family gathers for a wedding, Leela must sift truth from fiction.
Meanwhile the bride's father plots political conquest, the groom realises that he has fallen in love with his brother-in-law to be, and Ganesh - elephant-headed god and scribe of India's great epic, the Mahabharata - claims both Leela and the novel as his own creation.
Brilliantly playful and entertaining, Leela's Book weaves a poignant tale of contemporary life in an ancient city.
| ISBN: | 9780099548492 |
| Publication date: | 7th June 2012 |
| Author: | Alice Albinia |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 422 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Sense of place Family Drama |