The Tailor of Giripul

Janak, a mild-mannered tailor in the remote village of Giripul, tucked away in the August Himalayas, is besotted with his beautiful but sullen wife. All he wants is her love. Instead, he must deal all day with the village women who come to him with bits of cloth to stitch and who want to share their dreams with him.

Then a dead body is found in the village, and everyone jumps into the fray to solve the murder. From the headman's third wife and his Chinese hairdresser-mistress, to Shankar the fisherman-turned-sleuth, Lala the teashop owner and Lala's ex-contract killer cook, and a travelling magician - each one is a murder suspect. Will the tailor of Giripul solve the murder?

Redolent with the smells and sounds of a village buried in another time, this is a novel about an India we rarely read about. HarperCollins India

About the Author:
Bulbul Sharma is a painter and writer. She is the author of several books, including My Sainted Aunts, The Perfect Woman, Anger of Aubergines, Banana Flower Dreams, Shaya Tales, Devi, Eating Women, Telling Tales and Now That I am Fifty. Her books have been translated into Italian, French and Finnish. She has also written several books for children - Book of Indian Birds, Fabled Book of Gods and Demons and The Children's Ramayana. She has been conducting art and storytelling workshops for children with special needs for the last fifteen years.

Based in a small village in Himachal, this novel has lovable, small-town characters and the kind of appeal a Malgudi Days would have The author is well known and captures the simplicity of village life beautifully A short, feel-good novel that will make you want to escape to a hill station for a vacation

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