If I Could Tell You a Novel

DeScriPtion

An unnamed narrator writes a series of letters to his daughter, explaining

how his life has gone wrong. The letters, spanning the narrator's life in India

and England, and having as their unwavering focus his daughter and the

relationship between them, speak of hopes unfulfilled, of promises broken.

In prose of extraordinary beauty and power, Soumya Bhattacharya crafts a

story of longing, love and loss. It is a story about how luck and chance and a

twist in events can irrevocably alter our lives, a story of how love can lead to

catastrophe, and, ultimately, a story about the new India, and how its economy

can make, and then break a man who always wanted only to be no more-and

no less-than a writer.

Haunting and tender, this is a remarkable novel from one of the most

distinctive voices of his generation.