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LEELA-ALLURING, TACITURN, HAUNTED-IS MOVING BACK TO DELHI FROM NEW YORK. SHE KNOWS HER RETURN WILL UNSETTLE MANY LIVES. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO HER SISTER WAS SEDUCED BY VYASA, A YOUNG UNIVERSITY LECTURER. NOW VYASA, AN EMINENT SANSKRIT SCHOLAR, IS PREPARING FOR THE UNLIKELY MARRIAGE OF HIS SON, ASH, TO THE CHILD OF A HINDU NATIONALIST. COMPOUNDING LEELA S DISRUPTIVE PRESENCE, VYASA S HEDONISTIC DAUGHTER BHARATI ARRIVES FROM LONDON, RELUCTANTLY LEAVING HER COSMOPOLITAN UNIVERSITY LIFE TO SEE ASH MARRIED. HE, MEANWHILE, HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW TO BE. GLEEFULLY PRESIDING OVER THE DRAMA IS GANESH-DIVINE, ELEPHANT-HEADED SCRIBE OF INDIA S GREAT EPIC, THE MAHABHARATA. THE FAMILY PATRIARCHS MAY THINK THEY HAVE ARRANGED THE WEDDING FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH ENDS, BUT ACCORDING TO GANESH IT IS HE WHO IS DIRECTING EVENTS -IN A BID TO SAVE LEELA, HIS BELOVED HEROINE, FROM HIS DEVIOUS ENEMY VYASA. TURNING TO FICTION AFTER AN AWARD-WINNING TRAVEL BOOK, ALICE ALBINIA HAS WRITTEN A BRILLIANTLY PLAYFUL AND GENRE-DEFYING FIRST NOVEL. AMBITIOUS AND ENTERTAINING, LEELA S BOOK WEAVES A TALE OF CONTEMPORARY DELHI THAT CROSSES RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES, REACHING BACK INTO THE ORIGINS OF THE MAHABHARATA ITSELF.

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