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""Thus, I begin, not at the beginning, but at the end when I had met her for the first time.'Mehr, a Shia woman from Pakistan, falls inove with Firdaus, a youngster from Kashmir. Sundered by an unforgiving border, Mehr writes to her beloved, begging him to meet her. Firdaus relents, not knowing that the two of them are consumed by something far more dangerous thanove and passion. They have caught the eye of Indian Intelligence and stirred the suspicion of one particularly tenacious officer. A deadly pursuit ensues. Theines between betrayal and revenge, deception andoyalty,ove and madness, dream and reality stand blurred.In Mehr, award-winning author Siddhartha Gigoo plumbs the depths of obsession in its many forms:ove, patriotism, religion. Equal parts tragic and heroic, the novel explodes the boundaries between people and countries, finding peace amid the chaos of war andove in the shards of desolation.

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Siddhartha Gigoo has earlier written the Garden of Solitude and A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories. The latter was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2015.

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