What are the odds of a writerly couple launching new books within days of each other? “Not only that,” says Zac O’Yeah in all seriousness, “both books have yellow on the cover.” Then he adds in a conspiratorial whisper: “But my book is selling better.”
That finely developed sense of the absurd, and deadpan humour are the hallmarks of the Swedish writer whose Digesting India: A Travel Writer’s Sub-continental Adventures with the Tummy was published slightly ahead of wife Anjum Hasan’s History’s Angel.
