After penning two notable non-fictions, 'Remnants of a Separation' and 'In the Language of Remembering', author Aanchal Malhotra is all set to try her hands in writing a novel. Titled 'The Book of Everlasting Things', this is a love story which is set in the backdrop of the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition. The story is said to be a tale of love and loss, memory, and place.
Talking about her debut novel, Aanchal Malhotra said in a statement, “'The Book of Everlasting Things' is a novel about two families – one of perfumers and the other of calligraphers – entwined in each others’ lives for nearly a century by way of friendship, artistry, memory, war, betrayal, guilt, longing, exile, and above all, love. Navigating battlefields and flower fields, olfactory and amorous impulses, it is a book guided by the senses."
