Keeping in Touch

- Blurb -

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. ' 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. ' -Ganesh Saili, The New Indian Express' Anjali Joseph excels in these middle class stories. It is almost as if it is in the spirit of Jane Austen, to polish the two inches of ivory . . . Interestingly, this novel is probably a fine example of a new brand of diasporic literature that blends the cultures of the two lands deftly and unapologetically. It is evident in little details such as the use of Assamese words in the course of conversation or to describe dishes . . . Keeping in Touch ? is a very old-fashioned love story in a modern setting. It is beautifully told. It is impossible to put down. It lingers with you long after the book is over. ' -Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, co-founder of Ace Literary Consulting and Associate Professor at School of Modern Media Studies, UPES University' A novel with a lingering resonance for our times . . . Keeping in Touch is edgy, funny, and uncompromisingly modern. ' -Fantastic Fiction