In Translation-Gujarati
By Devangi Bhatt. Translated from the Gujarati original by Mudra Joshi
After this delusory incident for the first time nobody notices the change in Pauloma’s behaviour and however much she tries to confess to her husband that there was another world in the vessels, no one really cares about her irrational beliefs. Soon she is drawn to the storeroom once again and now she is transported to Cairo in Egypt where she lives as Princess Rabiya Abdi. Set during the period of the cultural revolution in Egypt during the 1950s, Rabiya is exposed to another world when her husband brings in an outsider, a bohemian painter from London, to draw her portrait.
Reviewed by: Somdatta Mandal