Edwina Aur Nehru

This historical novel, centered on the characters of Nehru and Edwina, is a striking blend of fact and fiction. What happened is true, but what didnt happen is also true to a certain extent because it was quite possible. Written with French readers in mind, this love story will undoubtedly stir the Indian public in the same way. The most significant event in the history of India in the twentieth century is the political partition of 1947. This novel attempts to tell the story of its causes and effects by delving into the lives of all the key actors involved in this event, thus revealing the invisible threads of the visible. The private within the public is also its core, and even more powerful in its poignancy. The narrative fabric of this novel is woven by capturing these insights with their poignant sensitivity. The events are often familiarin a sense, familiar. This is the situation of the charactersa whole world of well-known, courageous, and powerful warriors. But the history they all created together, of who, where, and how much was broken, made, or ruined, is not a history of events but of feelings. There is a point that creates the juncture of the external and the internal, where the external is often created through the endless effort to transcend the most intimate and personal. This novel attempts to capture this very point. To rise from the centrality of two important characters of time and recreate timenot in its eventfulness, but in its poignancy.