Shalimar the Clown

In Los Angeles, a former Indian ambassador is assassinated by his driver, a quiet man known as Shalimar. As the story unfolds, this shocking act of violence reveals its roots in a distant past, stretching back to a once-peaceful village in Kashmir.

There, Shalimar was a gifted tightrope walker and performer, deeply in love with a woman named Boonyi. Their lives, filled with beauty and tradition, are gradually torn apart by betrayal, political unrest, and the growing tensions that fracture their community. What begins as a love story transforms into a tale of obsession, loss, and revenge.

Spanning continents and generations, Shalimar the Clown is a sweeping, powerful novel about love and destruction, innocence and extremism, and the ways in which personal and political conflicts become tragically intertwined.