The Book of Gold Leaves
Book Details
Author(s)Mirza Waheed
PublisherPenguin UK
ISBN / ASIN0241970822
ISBN-139780241970829
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,620,742
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
In an ancient house in the city of Srinagar, Faiz paints exquisite papier-mâché pencil boxes for tourists. Evening is beginning to slip into night when he sets off for the shrine. There he finds the woman with the long black hair. Roohi is prostrate before her God. She begs for the boy of her dreams to come and take her away. Roohi wants a love story. An age-old tale of love, war, temptation, duty and choice, The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking tale of a what might have been, what could have been, if only.
