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The Book of Everlasting Things: A Novel Audiobook
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FOR FANS OF ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, A LUSH, SWEEPING LOVE STORY ABOUT A HINDU PERFUMER AND A MUSLIM CALLIGRAPHER, SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF PARTITION "Narrator Deepti Gupta captures the deep emotional connection between the two young people, making listeners feel hopeful that, in some way, Samir and Firdaus will find a way to be together. As listeners follow the pair through the decades and see the long-term effects of the partition, Gupta's performance complements this sweeping story, dazzling with every new chapter and plot twist." - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner) "The excellent audio production uses Indian music to open and close the epic, and narrator Deepti Gupta speaks with a lovely Indian accent that listeners will acclimate to easily." - Library Journal On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family’s ittar shop in Lahore. Over the years that follow, the perfumer’s apprentice and calligrapher’s apprentice fall in love with their ancient crafts and with each other, dreaming of the life they will one day share. But as the struggle for Indian independence gathers force, their beloved city is ravaged by Partition. Suddenly, they find themselves on opposite sides: Samir, a Hindu, becomes Indian and Firdaus, a Muslim, becomes Pakistani, their love now forbidden. Severed from one another, Samir and Firdaus make a series of fateful decisions that will change the course of their lives forever. As their paths spiral away from each other, they must each decide how much of the past they are willing to let go, and what it will cost them. Lush, sensuous, and deeply romantic, The Book of Everlasting Things is the story of two lovers and two nations, split apart by forces beyond their control, yet bound by love and memory. Filled with exquisite descriptions of perfume and calligraphy, spanning continents and generations, Aanchal Malhotra’s debut novel is a feast for the senses and the heart. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
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"An immersive delight, The Book of Everlasting Things enlivens history and the senses equally. Utterly transporting, it evokes with charm and precision a bygone era, bursting from these pages with restored beauty. The book traverses more than a century with astonishing grace. Malhotra has proven herself a detail driven researcher and empathetic historian, but this, her gorgeous, cinematic debut novel, stamps her place as a sublime storyteller."
— Karuna Ezara Parikh, author of The Heart Asks Pleasure First
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“Deepti Gupta performs this lush historical novel…[and] captures the deep emotional connection between the two young people…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“A beautiful love story.”
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“It will be difficult indeed to forget this exquisite story.”
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“A majestic, evocative exploration of the persistence of memory and the human connections that transcend even death.”
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“Mesmerizing…At the heart of Malhotra’s sweeping debut novel is an indelible love story…A transcendent study of the blurring of personal and political, as ordinary people deal with catastrophic historical events.
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A long and luxurious tale of love, loss, memory, and place, told against a backdrop of tumultuous historical events…It will be difficult indeed to forget this exquisite story.
— Library Journal (starred review) -
A majestic, evocative exploration of the persistence of memory and the human connections that transcend even death.
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At once sweeping and intimate. With gorgeous prose and careful research, Malhotra brings to life a world rich with Indian perfumery, Urdu calligraphy, and a romance that defies time and space. A stunning book that reminds you of what it is to fall in love.
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Spanning generations and continents, Malhotra’s debut is both thought-provoking and deliciously romantic. The Book of Everlasting Things will awaken your senses and leave you captivated until the last page.
— Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept -
Magical, illuminating, and thought-provoking! There is true love, longing, loss, and healing inside The Book of Everlasting Things. Malhotra writes with the power of a novelist who is the master of her craft.
— Nguyen Phan Que Mai, internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing -
The Book of Everlasting Things is a novel to be savored for its details, for the texture of lived life in Lahore before partition, for its evocations of characters and their artistic sensibilities. This is a mesmerizing recreation of a lost world.
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Spellbinding and lyrical, as richly layered as the scents that connect us to our deepest memories, The Book of Everlasting Things is a story about division, loss, and the love that transcends the boundaries of lifetimes. A magical read.
— Jennifer Rosner, award-winning author of The Yellow Bird Sings and Once We Were Home -
A stunning debut novel. The Book of Everlasting Things is a powerful story of what we choose to remember and forget, of how history shapes us, and the endurance of love. It is a book that will touch your heart and overwhelm your senses, and stay with you long after you have read it.
— Kavita Puri, author of Partition Voices -
Tender, compassionate, extravagantly inventive. A family epic that tells the spiritual biography of a nation. The research that went into this novel is visible on every page, and I am full of admiration for its attentiveness to the infinite minutiae of love.
— Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis and The Book of Chocolate Saints
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
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A USA Today Pick of the Month
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A Ms. Magazine Pick of the Month
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A Christian Science Monitor selection for January
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A PopSugar Pick of the Month's Best Books
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A BookRiot Pick for January
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About Aanchal Malhotra
Aanchal Malhotra is a writer, oral historian, and artist based in Delhi, India. She writes extensively on the 1947 Partition and its related topics. Her first book, Remnants of a Separation, was shortlisted for several prizes, including the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. She is the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory. The Book of Everlasting Things is her debut novel.
About Deepti Gupta
Deepti Gupta, fluent in Hindi, Urdu, and English, has an international career spread across India, Singapore, Pakistan, and the United States. As a narrator she brings an open and curious perspective to the author’s work. As an actress she has earned praise from the New York Times for her performance in the feature film Walkaway and also stars in Record/Play (a sci-fi love story) which was an official selection at Sundance 2013.