THAT SUMMER IN PARIS by Abha Dawesar
ISBN: 0385517491
Format: Hardcover, 352pp
Pub. Date: June 2006
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing
Dawesar’s meditation on aging, creativity and passion is a great summer read for anyone interested in the love lives of writers. American writer Maya is an admirer of Prem Rustem, see: Salman Rushdie, and worships the ground he walks on. Rustem is an aging Indian Nobel prize winning novelist, who feels he needs to live life, and not chronicle it. As soon as he makes this decision, he comes across Maya’s personal ad on a online dating website and wants to have a meaningful relationship with her. In the past, Prem has only been involved in unhealthy affairs- one of them with his sister, Meher. Soon after they meet, Maya leaves New York and is off to Paris for a writing fellowship and Rustem follows after her. Their May-December relationship is touching and erotic. This Bookfinds reviewer says it’s a fine beach read for people who don’t want the books to lose their intelligence.
