The Lights of Shantinagar
by Nidhi Arora
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Pub Date 5 Jun 2025 | Archive Date 30 Apr 2025
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Description
The Lights of Shantinagar is a warm and lively portrait of family life set in modern India where new philosophies are reshaping old traditions and one woman’s astute observations can change everything.
Aspiring quantum physicist Sumi is newly married and has moved into her husband’s family home. Here she observes that the beguilingly tranquil middle-class town of Shantinagar is not very different from her beloved quantum world: the happenings in one house are cryptically entangled with things next door, objects mysteriously disappear and unexpected interactions reveal surprising truths.
As the line between right and wrong begins to blur, new discoveries force the residents of Shantinagar to reflect on what they truly know about themselves and the ones they love. Meanwhile, Sumi must blend logic with love to make sense of her new circumstances.
Advance Praise
'Refreshing, emotionally aware and astutely narrated, Nidhi Arora’s debut The Lights of Shantinagar flirts with quantum physics to (re)present the mechanics of everyday life in a hyperlocal setting that most South Asians will immediately identify with. (...) Her prose possesses the quaintness of Anita Desai’s writing style and the sharp focus on middle-class travails that one can witness in Vivek Shanbhag’s fiction, yet, it is storytelling at its most novel' — Saurabh Sharma (they/them/theirs), Delhi-based queer writer and cultural critic
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781789651997 |
PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 272 |