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- Visitors to the House by Shashank Gupta – A Literary Masterpiece
Talking about Visitors to the House, author Shashank Gupta says, ‘In a world of rush-rush and push-push, I wanted to take the reader – young and old – back to the early seventies when a letter took two days to write and three weeks to reach. I wished to create the romance of the past, the aimless walks and town-folk who could scold you because they thought you belonged to them too. I hoped to remind myself as well of those days where smartness and charity were a far lesser virtue than humility and generosity.
The real meaning of the story I will perhaps discover in a few years, until then let us just say we are overstaying with an overindulgent family, and nobody seems to mind. Visitors to the House is like a black & white movie that should make you smile through your tears.’
Tina Narang, Publisher – HarperCollins India adds, ‘We are delighted to publish Shashank Gupta’s latest novel, Visitors to the House. Shashank invites you to a charming cottage set in the hillside of Didoli, to meet five completely diverse characters, and to live their five different stories in a 400-plus page literary masterpiece.
It’s a story that leaps right off the pages and carries you along, until you realize you aren’t just a reader anymore but a visitor to the house, just like them.’
In Visitors to the House, each of the five visitors to the house in the hill town of Didoli on the gorge has a story. The avuncular mongrel called Vurf, a spirit bearing a message for a stepdaughter, the urchin with her golden hair and a vagabond past, a fading child star too wise for his years and an autistic infant who can smell tomorrow. Their lives are entwined over a span of twenty years in a thinking world that seems to say: you grow up to become your childhood.
Shashank’s writing is literary, almost lyrical, and his observations on life and people astute.
About the Book - Visitors To The House
This cottage of ours stood away from Didoli town for that's the way Ammu had wanted it. Up here in the mountains the only buildings you saw were oaks, pines and chestnut ... the only noise you heard was of…
About the Author - Shashank Gupta
Shashank Gupta is an escape artist. He left his PhD in horticulture to become a farmer. He then abandoned six years of full-time farming for advertising. And after almost three decades as Creative Director he is still looking for freedom…
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