Crossing Over journeys through the intertwined lives of three friends—Rahul, Ajay, and Sundar—from their school days in Darjeeling to the complexities of adulthood across three dramatic decades.
Rahul, a quiet Bengali boy haunted by a difficult past, finds himself grappling with a personal and professional crisis. Ajay, a charming dreamer from Delhi with his eyes set on Bollywood, faces heartbreak and a cruel twist of fate. Sundar, fiercely ambitious, climbs the corporate ladder only to be pulled into a web of deceit and betrayal.
In 2015, their paths cross again—no longer as friends, but as adversaries. As corporate rivals and wounded men, they must reckon with the ghosts of their past and the choices that shaped them.
What happens when your instincts start battling your intellect? When time stretches so thin that the present begins to haunt you?
Ashank Sinha, once a high-flying forex trader navigating Mumbai’s financial maze, now finds himself in Lawrenceganj, a quaint village far removed from the world he once ruled. But why has he come here? What links him to Dr Saanvi Sharma at the village health centre? And who is the mysterious girl at the Tubewell House?
As long-buried secrets claw their way back to the surface, Ashank is forced to confront the ghosts of the past that refuse to stay buried.
बुकसेट में शामिल अमृता प्रीतम की तीन बेहद चर्चित रचनाएँ केवल साहित्यिक धरोहर नहीं, बल्कि भारतीय समाज, नारी चेतना और विभाजन के दर्द का दस्तावेज़ हैं।
बॉक्ससेट में शामिल पिंजर भारत-पाक विभाजन की त्रासदी पर आधारित यह उपन्यास स्त्री की अस्मिता, पीड़ा और संघर्ष की मार्मिक कथा है। अमृता प्रीतम ने नायिका ‘पूरो’ के माध्यम से सामाजिक बेड़ियों, धार्मिक हिंसा और नारी मन की गहराई को अत्यंत सशक्त ढंग से अभिव्यक्त किया है।
संग्रह की दूसरी पुस्तक ख़तों का सफ़रनामा अमृता प्रीतम के जीवन के निजी पत्रों, संवादों और अनुभूतियों का दस्तावेज़ है। इसमें उनका आत्मीय, संवेदनशील और विचारशील पक्ष प्रकट होता है, जिससे पाठक उनके अंतर्मन को नज़दीक से जान पाता है।
रसीदी टिकट अमृता की आत्मकथा है, जिसमें उनका व्यक्तिगत जीवन, प्रेम, लेखन और संघर्षों की स्पष्ट तथा निर्भीक अभिव्यक्ति है। इसमें उनका साहसी स्त्रीत्व, समाज से टकराने का आत्मबल और साहसिक दृष्टिकोण भी झलकता है।
अमृता की ये तीनों रचनाएँ आज भी पाठकों के दिल को छूती हैं।
‘Naina, Naina, Naina, I hear Vatsal’s voice calling out to me,
you’re falling in love with me, aren’t you?’
Meet Naina: a twenty-five-year-old with big dreams and a sceptical heart, searching for love that lasts and a job that doesn’t make her dread mornings.
Enter Vatsal: a charming, unpredictable twenty-eight-year-old lawyer-to-be, interning in Delhi before jetting off to London for his master’s degree.
Their worlds collide unexpectedly, leading to a whirlwind first date. Naina feels an instant connection, like fate brought them together. In days, they go from strangers to friends, best friends and then something more. Everyone thinks it’s just a matter of a few days until they make it official, call it love. How could they not, when it feels this right?
But then comes the Diwali party—the best and worst day of Naina’s life. A devastating event shatters their bond, and they don’t speak. For three whole years.
As fate would have it, Naina and Vatsal meet again. This time, Naina is cautious; Vatsal overfamiliar. Everything feels just as intense as it once did—but can Naina handle the pain that took her years to overcome, if at all? And can Vatsal fight his fears and stay to watch Naina overcome it?
Forty years after he left, Vidhu Mirani—the Pritzker Prize winning architect whom Karl Lagerfeld once called the Coco Chanel of today—returns to India when the Prime Minister invites him to design a new public library for the capital New Delhi. But a chance encounter in a park now puts him at the centre of a political controversy and forces him to revisit a past that he thought he had left behind.
As his curiosity unspools into something resembling regret, his old friend Hanif Allana, furiously mastering a grief of his own, engages him in a desperate, obsessive cat-and-mouse game. Binding the two men is Tanya Sinha, the woman they both loved, but neither truly knew.
As each exhumes personal history to locate missing pieces of the puzzle they have individually carried within them for years, painful memories begin to surface.
The Architect’s Dream is a novel that asks the primordial question—how haunted are we by the secrets of others?—with a psychologically suspenseful twist that both devastates and redeems.
इस पृथ्वी नाम के ग्रह पर हमारे जीवन का एक ऐसा स्वरूप जिसके बारे में आपने पहले कभी नहीं सोचा होगा।
छह अंतरिक्षयात्री अपने अंतरिक्षयान में बैठकर लगातार पृथ्वी का चक्कर लगा रहे हैं। वहाँ उनका काम मौसम संबंधी आँकड़ों को इकट्ठा करना और वैज्ञानिक प्रयोगों को अंजाम देना है। लेकिन अमूमन वे अपना समय निरीक्षण में ही बिताते हैं। एक साथ मिलकर वे हमारी इस शांत नीले रंग के ग्रह को निहारते रहते हैं: एक ही दिन में शानदार सौंदर्य के अंतहीन नज़ारे उनकी आँखों के सामने से गुजरते हैं।
हालाँकि वे दुनिया से अलग-थलग हैं लेकिन फिर भी लगातार होने वाली इसकी खींचतान भागने का कोई विकल्प उनके पास नहीं है। उन तक माँ के गुजर जाने की ख़बर पहुँचती है और इसके साथ ही मन में विचार उठने लगता है वापस पृथ्वी पर लौटने का। उनकी बातचीत, उनके डर, उनके सपने, सब कुछ ही मानव जीवन की क्षणभंगुरता से लबरेज़ है।
पृथ्वी से दूर रहते हुए उन्हें इस बात का अभूतपूर्व अनुभव हुआ कि वे इसका अनन्य हिस्सा हैं या उनके भीतर इसे लेकर एक सुरक्षात्मक भाव है। पृथ्वी के बिना जीवन का अस्तित्व क्या है? मानवता के बिना पृथ्वी का क्या मतलब है? जैसे प्रश्नों से उनका दिमाग़ अटा पड़ा है।
What really is the true definition of love? That which we set, or that which our bodies define?
When Yash meets Renu, they quickly move from the physical to the metaphysical plane where Renu’s story is unfolding itself in ways that it begins to shake Yash’s world. And as he starts to question his ideas of manhood, of love, of normalcy, he also helps build another world—a world of love, inhabited and unsullied by men.
From delicate layers of human emotions, the author builds a narrative that shows a mirror to patriarchy and redundant notions of love. He punctures the ideals of male gaze and male superiority and jabs a finger at societal norms and the idea of ‘normal’.
She & Hers is not just a story of queer love, it’s also a multidimensional lens under which each character though flawed, seeks a life of fulfilment and understanding.
When perfection is the only condition of living—will anyone be spared?
Yuna Shin is a dotting and charmingly beautiful woman, caring towards her family with delicious dinner spreads—that sometimes feel like a high stake 4-D chess game.
Yun Shin is the image of calm before a storm; everyone can be happy as long it is by her idea of happiness.
Just don’t cross the line, don’t seek the truth, don’t ask about that stain under the rug; as some secrets are better left undiscovered.
So, what happens when her daughter starts suspecting that bedtime stories will always come with disturbing dreams. Her husband, who has mastered the art of looking away, is now rattled when one too many times when their jigsaw of a family butts heads.
And her sister? Well, she is has started to look harder at Yuna’s house of cards.
Everyone is asking questions; but Yuna Shin knows how to keep her ‘perfect’ life from unravelling; because with her, there aren’t any slip-ups or so she thinks?
Perfect Happiness by You Jeong-Jeong, the queen of crime from South Korea, is a menacing ride into a domestic nightmare where the tighter you hold, the more ends unravel. A gripping thriller which leaves you feeling hauntingly watched over the shoulder.
- A chilling psychological thriller from bestselling Korean author You-Jeong Jeong.
- Twisting timelines and hidden truths reveal the cost of You-nah’s pursuit of happiness.
- Perfect for fans of K-drama and K-pop, blending cultural depth with edge-of-your-seat suspense.
- Intricately plotted with unpredictable twists and a rising body count wrapped in mystery.
- Writing that combines emotional complexity with a gripping, adrenaline-fueled pace.
In the glittering rot of Sodom, where opium blooms like dark flowers since time immemorial, Lot, a foreigner, threads his life through shadows—with his wife, daughters, and humanity at stake. Sodom is a modern inferno, devouring its own: Emalath, Bithya, Jachin, mere echoes in its relentless feast. Lot’s solitary compassion fractures the city’s void, his kindness is but a costly lamentation.
The Stain reimagines the biblical scape, a Levantine dreamscape where the known unravels—truth and humanity become questions, not answers.
Translated from the Malayalam by Sangeetha Sreenivasan.
Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning—longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force.
In a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and famine, Ma, her two-year-old daughter, and her elderly father are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited visas from the consulate, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning they awaken to discover that Ma’s purse, containing their treasured immigration documents, has been stolen.
Set over the course of one week, A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma’s frantic search for the thief while keeping hunger at bay during a worsening food shortage; and the story of Boomba, the thief, whose desperation to care for his family drives him to commit a series of escalating crimes whose consequences he cannot fathom. With stunning control and command, Megha Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of two families, each operating from a place of ferocious love and undefeated hope, each discovering how far they will go to secure their children’s future as they stave off encroaching catastrophe.
A masterful new work from one of the most exciting voices of her generation.
