Keeping in Touch
Overview
From award-winning writer Anjali Joseph, a compelling new novel about a dysfunctional love affair.
Meet Ved, a British investor heading back to his Indian roots with a business proposition: a lightbulb called the Everlasting Lucifer.
Meet Keteki, an art curator with a nomadic lifestyle, on her way home to Assam.
In Heathrow airport, on the way to Mumbai, their paths cross, sparking an affair that soon turns into an intricate power game—and a complicated journey towards intimacy.
Details
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- Paperback
- 5.8in x 8.3in
- 240 pages
- 9781957363004
- USD$17.00
- 1 November 2022
- WORLD ENGLISH (EX. INDIA, BANGLADESH, BHUTAN, MALDIVES, NEPAL, PAKISTAN, SRI LANKA)
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Awards
- Shortlisted for the 2023 The SOA Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize
Praise
‘The hesitation and wary texting, the one step forward and two steps back — this is a modern love story that also becomes a love story about Assam. I read this book in a single sitting.’
‘The story stretches out the narrow boundaries of magic realism — you will find yourself more grounded in the matter-of-fact world we live in — where Joseph transmutes the ‘sameness of everydayness’ into the extraordinary. You will discover every shower bringing out its own special rainbow. Keeping in Touch is a very old-fashioned love story in a modern time, where the seduction of a 30-something British Asian man by an Assamese woman assumes epic undertones. This is a story well told. It is hard to put the book down after you have read the first few pages. The aftertaste lingers long after the book is done and dusted.’
About the Author
Anjali Joseph is an Indian novelist living in Britain. Her first novel, Saraswati Park, won the Betty Trask Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Her work illuminates the inner lives of characters: from a Bombay letter writer to a single mother in a Norwich factory, or the sceptical late-thirties protagonists of her latest novel, Keeping in Touch, as they navigate falling in love. Anjali’s gift is to make art that reconnects readers to their sense of magic. She is working on a novel about the Irish naval officer and archaeoastronomer Boyle Somerville.
