In The Land Of The Lovers: A Punjab Qissa

It Evoked A Feeling In HerOf Silence And Freedom, Of Riding A Bicycle On A Dirt Track Cutting Through Fields In The Absence Of Her Parents, Nanaki, A Fiercely Sensitive Young Woman, Is Brought Up By Her Grandparents In A Quaint Chandigarh Neighbourhood. She Grows Up To Be An Artist And A Professor In An Art College. As Nanaki Goes Through The Motions Of An Idyllic Childhood And A Difficult Teenage Love, Her Experiences Play Out Against A Haunting Backdrop Of Partition And Her BeejiS Turbulent Personal History. Nanaki Is Brought Face To Face With The Dark Underbelly Of Contemporary Punjab When She Takes Up The Cause Of A Consummate Embroidery Artist Against A Corrupt System While Also Being Privy To The Heart-Breaking Stories Of Two Women In Her Immediate Vicinity. Through It All, It Is Her Sufi Bearings That Sustain Her. Meanwhile, Over Many Motorcycle Jaunts To The Tiny Hill-Town Of Ka Sa Ul I, Nanaki Finds Love In Himmat, An Architect With His Own Share Of Personal Tragedy And A Scarred Childhood. Meditative, Rooted In Location Yet Filtered Through Nostalgia, In The Land Of The Lovers Is A Masterfully Woven Fable With Interlocking Tales That Explore Struggle, Loss, Longing And Love With Brilliant Insight And Luminous Prose.