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Gayathri Prabhu, twenty-nine, is a full time writer. A
post-graduate in Mass Communication from Jamia Milia
Islamia University, New Delhi, and English Literature,
Gayathri has worked as an assistant director on feature
films and a producer of television programmes. She has
been writing verse since her college days and in the
last four years has been seriously working on fiction.
Though her roots are in coastal Karnataka, she has lived
and travelled across the country. Gayathri is married to
a journalist and presently lives in New Delhi.
Maya
A young girl with myriad questions, her grandfather who
hears voices of the dead and his house which has a mind
of its own. In a quiet little village by the Arabian Sea
lives a family trapped in a whirlpool of passions.
Maya, lively and curious finds her world limiting to the
imagination. Her quest for answers is unending,
sometimes silly, often profound, but no doubt strangely
perceptive. The village agrees that she is an extension
of her grandfather and his house which, defying
convention, stands on a mound of earth very close to the
sea.
The old man is haunted by a legendary treasure which
brought him wealth and the arrogance to defy death. The
fate of that treasure and the house that is pinning his
soul to its walls has been the subject of speculations
in the neighbourhood for many years. Fading reality and
stories haunt him, like the birth of the village,
hearsay of a time when it had rained for twenty-one days
and a new land created from the destruction of the
existing one.
The house by the sea is disturbed. It has to find a path
of release both for itself and its creator. Something
unspoken is slowly breaking its stony heart.
The rest of the family is tossing among other unresolved
issues - the fate of an unborn child, a mismatched
marriage and a sensuous gypsy who outstays her visit.
A gentle tale of desires, illusions and fantasy, the
book is a journey into the depths of human nature. |
