Böcker av Anuradha Kumar

In 1896, Mark Twain arrives at the docks of Bombay, wife and daughter intow, and, after attending a party in his honour, vanishes from his room at theiconic Watson's Hotel in the dead of night.Desperate to find the legendary writer and avoid an international incidentbetween his country and Britain, the American Trade Consul, Henry Baker,teams up with Abdul, his trusted aide, and Maya Barton, a free-spirited Anglo-Indian with surprisingly intuitive detective skills. But they have their taskcut out for them: Mark Twain's disappearance appears to be entangled witha thriving opium trade; an intimidating, self-righteous preacher; an anxiousmagician who walks on stilts; a professional thief on the run; and a powerfullabour leader, Tuka, whose young wife is found strangled in her bed.Full of fascinating period detail and delightful cameos-and awash withsuspense-The Kidnapping of Mark Twain is a thrilling page-turner.

Set in the newly independent and defiantly hopeful India of the early 1960s, The Hottest Summer in Years is a story of one's inner demons and if love might bring deliverance from them. As an important factory takes shape with German collaboration in a central Indian town, Hans Gerder finds himself on a learning curve once more. Just as it has been all his life. With a childhood spent in southwest Africa, and then learning harsh truths about Germany in the early 1940s, Hans is at times confused about the past and his own role in it. As a witness to evil, Hans is haunted by what he has seen, and is unsure about his chances for love and redemption. But in this somnolent yet simmering Indian town, circumstances link his life closely to young Lipsa's, who is as lonely and lost as he is. When a body is discovered unexpectedly in the forest, Hans finds himself shielding Lipsa and her family from the predatory instincts of an ambitious police officer. As the present tumbles out of his grip, will he finally find the answers to his past?