Mandvi: The interwoven stories of five women. A complete saga of life, loss and love.

Nilu A

nov 2020 · Notion Press

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Bhoomi ‘Mother Earth’ - a small town girl whose talent helps her rise aboveher circumstances.
Deepani ‘Still waters’ - an innocent, sheltered teenager awakening to the pleasures of her body.
Pavani ‘Blowing in the wind’ - a classic tale of a poor little rich girl.
Three young girls whose paths cross in the mystical seaside town of Mandvi, soon joined by the fiery Magni and blazing Surya.
The interwoven stories of these five women spans three generations, and covers the attitudes towards gender, sex, marriage, and race at the time.

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Nilu. A is a Sri Lankan mother of four who has taken up writing for pleasure after her children had left home to pursue their studies.
Her first novel titled Mandvi is a town in the state of Gujurat in India, a place which had always fascinated the author, ever since she had heard the tale of seafarers and traders from Mandvi being washed ashore by a storm to land and settle in her motherland, Sri Lanka.
An avid reader and a pre- school teacher, she still loves working with Toddlers and painting in her free time.