Aanchal Malhotra is a writer and oral historian from New Delhi. She is the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory, and the author of two critically acclaimed books, Remnants of a Separation and In the Language of Remembering, that explore the human history and generational impact of the 1947 Partition. The Book of Everlasting Things is her debut novel.
<p>Lahore, 1938. Drawn by the smell of roses, nine-year-old calligrapher Firdaus Khan</p><p>walks in on young Samir Vij studying scents at the back of his family's ittar shop. Thus</p><p>begins a love story written in dark and delicate ink.</p><p>However, with the 1947 Partition and the birth of two independent nations, Samir, a</p><p>Hindu, becomes Indian and Firdaus, a Muslim, becomes Pakistani. Bound by family and</p><p>fate, as Firdaus and Samir move farther away from each other, they must decide how</p><p>to hold on to their memories...</p><p>An assured debut novel from historian Aanchal Malhotra, The Book of Everlasting</p><p>Things is both intimate and sweeping. A story spanning continents and generations that</p><p>makes visible how threads of the past braid with those of the future, here is a book</p><p>which will linger in the reader's mind like the notes of an unforgettable perfume.</p>
