New Life

New Life is a tale of love, of a girl growing up to be a woman in Calcutta, and of her spiritual awakening that takes place across continents. It is a story of complex human relationships, evocatively interspersed with metaphorical descriptions of landscapes. A passage in the novel aptly describes the author’s intention behind her writing: ‘She wrote from, not about. She attempted to create a space, a vast space where many things could dwell at the same time. And where each thing could become more than itself.’ Through this novel, a native sensibility works in English to rediscover our own ways of understanding the world. This is not just a tale, it is a poem.