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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.

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