The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Epigraph Part One

1. The Inheritance 2. A Brief History of Belonging 3. The War Years 4. The Affliction 5. The Perfumer’s Apprentice 6. The Calligrapher 7. Paradise Found 8. Alif 9. The Barter 10. The Soul of the Rose 11. The Syntax of Smell 12. Carrying an Ancient Art into a Modern World 13. The Uncertain Hour 14. The Lahore Resolution

Part Two

15. Inquilab Zindabad 16. A Hindustan for All Hindustanis 17. Yours, Samir 18. Tulsi 19. The Rain Below Our Feet 20. The Gift 21. Things Hardly Ever Ruptured in Clean Lines 22. To Pause on the Plateau of Some Uncertain Hope 23. The World Ablaze 24. Like a Body Abandoning Its Shadow

Part Three

25. Are You There, Can You Hear Me? 26. Freedom, and Partition 27. Meeting the Ocean 28. A Land for Our People 29. To Leave a Beloved Behind 30. A Family of Three 31. The Discovery 32. With the Indians in France 33. In the Trenches 34. We Were Here Too 35. Breakable, Mortal Bodies 36. Grasse 37. La Tendresse 38. The Confession 39. The Slow Wilt

Part Four

40. From the Paris of the East 41. The Perfumed Land 42. The Second Apprenticeship 43. Firaq 44. The Hyposmic 45. Les Jardins De L’inde 46. The Longest Distance 47. The Heirs

Part Five

48. A Pakistani in Paris 49. This Is How It Happened 50. The Emissary 51. This Love, Older than I 52. I Have Known Her Heart 53. Dvořák in the Atelier 54. Three Hundred and Eighty-Eight Letters 55. A Rose Can Never Hide 56. The Namesake 57. The Book of Everlasting Things 58. The Grandchildren of Partition 59. Khazin-E-Firdaus, the Keeper of Paradise

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