Jaipur Journals

From a septuagenarian who has completed her semi-fictional novel but does not want to publish it to an author who receives a threat in the form of an anonymous letter from a historian who reunites with a past lover to a burglar who is passionate about poetry from a young woman who has no idea what this world has in store for her to an American woman looking for the India of her hippie youth this metafictional wryly funny pacey novel is an ode to literature. Told from multiple perspectives set against the backdrop of the vibrant multilingual Jaipur Literature Festival diverse stories of lost love and regret self-doubt and new beginnings come together in a narrative that is as varied as India itself.. Partly a love letter to the greatest literary show on earth partly a satire about the glittery set that throngs this literary venue year on year and partly an ode to the millions of aspiring writers who wander the earth with unsubmitted manuscripts in their bags Jaipur Journals is a light-footed romp that showcases in full form Gokhale's unsparing eye for the pretensions and the pathos of that loneliest tribe of them all: the writers.