A compelling account of contemporary life, both interesting and tragic. 
“He had been a high-bouncing lover who had savored the pleasure of being caught on the throes of a vibration that flowed from a clap of cymbals struck upon a spire. 
It needn’t have ended but it had. He would carry the echo of it with him but the actual pulsation had ceased. 
A memory had been formed. Danny felt relieved—it was easier to carry memories than people with him.”

Ashwini Bhatnagar is an experienced journalist who has worked in top positions with newspapers like The Times of India, The Pioneer, Sunday Mail and The Tribune, beside TV news channels. 
His first book Shadow’s Word was published by the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi and the second, Magic of the Fanciful: Essays from Journalism, carried a blurb written by Time essayist and novelist Pico Iyer. This is his first novel.
E-mail : ashwinibhatnagar@hotmail.com