A very unusual story! The story begins with this seventeen year old girl (named Leela) who loses her father in riots and whose mother abandons her when they shift from Nairobi to Europe.
Mother sends her to a childless uncle and aunt in France and takes the twin younger boys with her to stay with her brother in England.
Leela is trying to adjust in an alien world, hoping that her mom will soon call her to join her in England, but instead mom soon re-marries and abandons her forever.
She learns to cook from her aunt and soon realizes she has a very distinctive power of smell.
She can smell the spices and figure out the details about the taste of the dish being cooked.
The story continues as she is thrown out of her aunt's house and finds herself on streets one late night, why? Coz she dared to tell aunty the truth about her uncle.
Then she moves from one job to another in search of a shelter and people who may care for her.
In this journey, she meets a famous model, a musician, a business man and many others.
She becomes nanny for two little girls, a mistress of a very rich & successful businessman only to leave it all behind her and go to a lonely beach to maybe try and kill herself, where she meets a man who loves dogs and doesn't have his legs, but is content with his life.
She realizes on meeting him that she cannot run forever and she must get back to life.
She returns back to an old friend only to realize that the guy had been madly in love with her all these years.
She is happy and content now but that's not the end of the story yet, she develops a strong sense of a pungent smell coming out from her body.
She feels that she stinks and gets into panic attacks and repulses everyone around her.
Does she actually stink? Or it's just her feeling? Is she suffering from a disease? Well, that's for you to find out in the book...
A beautiful narration where the reader finds it very difficult to put down the book.
Very simply written story from yet another amazing Indian author who is not very well-known.
Hats-off for such a wonderful work! If you are a reader who needs some freshness and different style of narration, try this book.
Mother sends her to a childless uncle and aunt in France and takes the twin younger boys with her to stay with her brother in England.
Leela is trying to adjust in an alien world, hoping that her mom will soon call her to join her in England, but instead mom soon re-marries and abandons her forever.
She learns to cook from her aunt and soon realizes she has a very distinctive power of smell.
She can smell the spices and figure out the details about the taste of the dish being cooked.
The story continues as she is thrown out of her aunt's house and finds herself on streets one late night, why? Coz she dared to tell aunty the truth about her uncle.
Then she moves from one job to another in search of a shelter and people who may care for her.
In this journey, she meets a famous model, a musician, a business man and many others.
She becomes nanny for two little girls, a mistress of a very rich & successful businessman only to leave it all behind her and go to a lonely beach to maybe try and kill herself, where she meets a man who loves dogs and doesn't have his legs, but is content with his life.
She realizes on meeting him that she cannot run forever and she must get back to life.
She returns back to an old friend only to realize that the guy had been madly in love with her all these years.
She is happy and content now but that's not the end of the story yet, she develops a strong sense of a pungent smell coming out from her body.
She feels that she stinks and gets into panic attacks and repulses everyone around her.
Does she actually stink? Or it's just her feeling? Is she suffering from a disease? Well, that's for you to find out in the book...
A beautiful narration where the reader finds it very difficult to put down the book.
Very simply written story from yet another amazing Indian author who is not very well-known.
Hats-off for such a wonderful work! If you are a reader who needs some freshness and different style of narration, try this book.
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