Karuna Ezara Parikh’s book talks the language of love
The Hindu
Karuna Ezara Parikh says her début novel, The Heart Asks Pleasure First (Pan Macmillan, ₹699), first came to her in 2007. “I have been working on it on and off since,” she writes on email from Kolkata where she lives with her husband and a dog called Clover.
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