When You are Nowhere: Love flows through the debris of destruction

<p> Love flows in debris of destruction <br/>​In this haunting debut Pranab Kumar Senapati deconstructs the cost of peace. When a police cover-up saves a village from a communal riot two lovers are forced into a ghost existence. As they dissolve into the anonymity of the city&mdash;becoming nowhere people&mdash;the novel exposes the brutal reality of those who fall through the cracks of the census.<br/>​Reminiscent of the gritty realism of Aravind Adiga and the tragic scope of Thomas Hardy As You are Nowhere is a requiem for the forgotten. It challenges the reader to look at the beggars on the station platform and wonder: What history did they lose to get here?</p>