A strange family, a pleasant story of a family “out of line”, in the throes of love, death and indissoluble family ties. Stories told with simplicity and tenderness. It all began when Babo was the first member of the Patel family to leave Madras, flying to London to further his education. Leafing through the pages of the novel, you find yourself in a Babo Finchley Road apartment while he makes love with a Welsh girl. Sian Jones, she had a red ribbon in her hair, and even skin the color of milk. Yet a few pages, and you’ll meet Sian, Mayuri and Bean, their home from painted orange and black gate, right next to the headquarters of the Punjab Women. Days, weeks, months to years pass, for all the people of this strange family, along with Jim Morrison and Indira Gandhi, Charles and Diana, along with the dangers of first love and last question, the one that surrounds the twilight of all life: fill empty spaces. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pleasure-Seekers-Tishani-Doshi/dp/1408809834
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Tishani Doshi – graduated with a master’s degree in creative writing from the Johns Hopkins University – she is an Indian poet, journalist and dancer, and was born in the city of MADRAS in 1975, but currently she lives on a beach, between two fishing villages. Tishani’s debut novel (The pleasure seekers), was shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize, and she has published six books of poetry and fiction.