This is a novel that has partition as one of the landscapes, just like it speaks of World War I and World War 2, post war Europe and the subject of multiple migrations.” “This is not a partition novel.” she insists and adds, “I don’t want people to think that I only write about that considering that I’m already pigeonholed into that subject matter. After two acclaimed books on partition and its lingering effects in the acclaimed Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory and In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition, the author is back with her debut novel, The Book of Everlasting Things. I thought I would work on something lighter.” answers author and historian Aanchal Malhotra when asked about her shift from non-fiction to fiction.
“It is incredibly difficult to carry on the sadness of others.
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