# Leela's Book

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- Book: [Leela’s Book](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-albinia/leelas-book) ([Leela’s Book.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-albinia/leelas-book.md))
- Authors: [Alice Albinia](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-albinia)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9954-849-2
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2012-06-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Leela - alluring, taciturn, haunted - is moving back to Delhi after years of exile in New York. She knows her return will disrupt precariously balanced lives. Twenty years ago her sister Meera died, taking a devastating secret with her. Now, as the family gathers for a wedding, Leela must sift truth from fiction. Meanwhile the bride's father plots political conquest, the groom realises that he has fallen in love with his brother-in-law to be, and Ganesh - elephant-headed god and scribe of India's great epic, the Mahabharata - claims both Leela and the novel as his own creation. Brilliantly playful and entertaining, Leela's Book weaves a poignant tale of contemporary life in an ancient city.