The Obscure Logic of the Heart by Priya Basil

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197mm x 126mm x 30mm

Seiten: 506

Sarna Singh, the heroine of ISHQ AND MUSHQ (love and scent) has a secret to bear. In her youth at the time of Indian Independence, she bore an illegitimate daughter, Nina, whom she passed off, to those outside the family, as her much younger sister. Now married with twins and living in England, Nina contacts her asking to be brought over from India and acknowledged. Meanwhile, it is the Swinging Sixties, Carnaby Street is full of hippies fashioning Indian cotton, and husband Karam's textile business goes into overdrive. As Sarna, the tragedy queen of the family, believes Karam's attentions to be wandering, she launches a domestic attack on the family through cooking - sweetening their savoury courses till they feel sick, then spicing them up till they gag even more. Sarna's attempts to control her inner turmoil through food is tormenting her loved ones to tipping point. Nina, the family secret, lives with them always as Sarna's sister. The twins are now grown up and as the attitudes of.