Darklands

The timeless tale of love retoldIndia is reeling from an environmental catastrophe water has replaced oil as the most valuable commodity and our cities have become nightmarish places infested with gangs secretive corporations and powerful religious figures. An advanced form of technology enables the manufacture of humans in laboratories. In this ever-frightening world Haksh born in a lab does what he shouldn’t have he falls in love with a human. Darklands-a radical reworking of Emily Brontë’s classic Wuthering Heights-is a coming-of-age novel about violence revenge transgression boundaries and above all love both all-consuming and redemptive. Dark and bleak it heralds Arnav Das Sharma as a major new voice in Indian YA fiction. About the Author Arnav Das Sharma is an independent journalist and a doctoral fellow with the Delhi School of Economics.