mistress

When travel writer Christopher Stewart arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala India to meet Koman Radha''s uncle and a famous dancer he enters a world of masks and repressed emotions. From their first meeting both Radha and her uncle are drawn to the enigmatic young man with his cello and his incessant questions about the past. The triangle quickly excludes Shyam Radha''s husband who can only watch helplessly as she embraces Chris with a passion that he has never been able to draw from her. Also playing the role of observer-participant is Koman; his life story as it unfolds captures all the nuances and contradictions of the relationships being made—and unmade—in front of his eyes.Booklist calls Mistress Tempestuously exotic Nair''s intricately woven multicultural and multigenerational saga pulsates with passion and desire.