#abhadawesar

[feyfeline]

Being a team of writers & readers, we were drawn to 'That Summer In Paris' by Abha Dawesar as it is the story of two writers who find themselves in an unexpected relationship. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Ageing Nobel Prize-winning author Prem Rustum & much-younger aspiring novelist Maya, who idolises Prem take us through their May-December romance of idolatry, societal conventions & beautiful conversations. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Prem finds Maya, on an online dating site while Googling his own name, after being convinced to do so by his best-friend Pascal (who is also a writer). While the initial meeting between the two is almost like every first date ever, it sets the stage for the main background of the story; Paris. Maya who has been invited for a fellowship there, and Prem who spontaneously shifts his annual plans to coincide with her dates. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Both of them derive great pleasure & inspiration from their time in Paris, with their love for music, gastronomy & art drawing out their seduction in a most tantalising will-they won't-they way. Interspersed between those balmy days are also Rustum's mental flashbacks to his long & varied list of lost-loves, and Maya's encounters with sexuality & dating in the modern world. A very sultry read for these sultry days. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Dawesar frames each sentence beautifully, adding delightful differences to the protagonists’ tone depending on their conversation. While Prem & Maya's conversations are charged with poetic tension, Pascal & Prem's is a series of witty repartee in eloquent words. Using provocative prose with a breezy tempo, Dawesar ensures you keep turning the pages till the very end. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ #TheLabelLife #AbhaDawesar #ThatSummerInParis #BookClub #NowReading #SummerReads #WhatToRead #IndianAuthors #Weekend #Readers #Paris #Love #MayDecember #Bookstagram ⁣⁣ ⁣ (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1qZ-EeplgL/?igshid=f03x219aq0n1

[blacknerdproblems]

“At night I would lie awake, suspending the harsh reality of being 16 and a flimsy female with no money to my name, and imagine that I was the man from the movies. I wanted wealth, power, or frame, or something that would help me get the things that the rules of the world did not permit” • • • #babyji #abhadawesar #bnplit #comingofagebook #booksofinstagram

[unabridgedbookstore]

BABYJI by Abha Dawesar is an entertaining slice of modern Indian life. This beautifully rendered story concerns the queer sexual awakening of fiercely independent Anamika, who navigates her final year in school by defying traditional Indian mores. BABYJI is a funny and refreshingly different addition to the canons of queer literature. #abhadawesar #unabooksprideallyear (at Unabridged Bookstore)

[subhinay]

A cacophony of real and imagined lovers filled my head. They were screaming, shouting, accusing me of treachery and betrayal, infidelity and disloyalty, India and Sheela, Rani and Adit, Vidur, Chakra Dev, my mother, Mrs. Pillai, and Deepak all grievously claimed injury and showed me the damage I had done. Love in my dream was not a many-shaped thing but a single blinding light. Everyone bathed in it together, without distinctions, all balanced precariously on the edge of an abyss. The compartments in my brain were erased, compassion and maternal affection paraded naked with desire, lust conjoined with admiration.

Baby Ji by Abha Dawesar

[subhinay]

In the world of zero and one, self-immolation was a simple act. Fire, a purifier. Violence, an unrefined response to the complex machinery inside the head that manufactured a thousand kinds of sordid poison — each corrupting and vilifying, dislocating, blaspheming, decapitating, and corroding the universe of feeling that arose in the human breast.

Baby Ji by Abha Dawesar