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Paradise Towers
Dinesh opens the door to the Kapoor flat to find Lata, the enchantress who works at Mrs Aly Khan’s, carrying a hot case with freshly made gaajar ka halwa. On the first floor, the inquisitive Mrs Mody wipes the dust off her precious binoculars to better observe the building’s security guard. Welcome to Paradise Towers, an apartment building in central Mumbai. Everyone here has a story to tell. Or maybe they have stories to hide.
Shweta Bachchan-Nanda’s quirky, intimate debut explores the intertwined lives in Paradise Towers - a forbidden romance, an elopement, the undercurrents of tension in corridor interactions and an explosive Diwali celebration. Bachchan-Nanda’s is a dazzling voice that will draw you into this intoxicating, crazy world. Shweta Bachchan-Nanda is a columnist for DNA and Vogue. A well-known personality, she is the daughter of actors Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan. Shweta is married to Nikhil Nanda and is
the mother of two children. This is her first novel. She lives in New Delhi.
‘Thoughtful, incisive and nuanced - just like the author’
— VOGUE
‘Observant, moving, hilarious and exceptionally astute...
Paradise Towers is no slice of life...it’s an entire loaf’
— KARAN JOHAR
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English (S.Asia) | HarperCollins India
