Indian & South Asian Fiction, Crimes - Fiction

Sin Of Color

Name: Sin Of Color
Author: Sunetra Gupta
ISBN: 9781570718564

by Sunetra Gupta

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Overview

Debendranath Roy, presumed dead, leaves behind a pale, languishing wife and a mystery that takes 20 years to unfold. His hidden passion for his brother's wife, his own wife's unrequited love and his niece's obsession to uncover the truth create the beauty, power and tension of this story.

A Sin of Color tells the story of three generations, and of a house in Calcutta called Mandalay. It is to Mandalay that Debendranath's father brings his young bride after their wedding. And it is to Mandalay that Debendranath's older brother brings his own wife, the woman with whom Debendranath falls in love. Fleeing the house, his family and his ill-fated love for a married woman, Debendranath leaves for England. But he cannot escape his passion-and years later, neither can his niece, Niharika, a beautiful and talented writer.

Synopsis

A stunningly beautiful novel of obsession and love.\

About the Author, Sunetra Gupta

Sunetra Gupta was born in 1965 in Calcutta and as a child lived in both Ethiopia and Zambia. She graduated from Princeton in 1987 with a degree in biology. She lives in Oxford where she divides her time between her family, researching infectious diseases and writing.

A Sin of Color was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award, a respected award in India; and nominated for the Orange Prize, the award for the best novel written by a woman in the U.K. Gupta's other critically acclaimed novels are Memories of Rain for which she received the Indian Academy of Letters Award, The Glassblower's Breath and Moonlight into Marzipan.