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This is the true and intimate story of one man and his love of
four women, each of them very different, but each in her turn
the object of his hopes and desires.
What does Ved Mehta want of these women? To be loved by them,
to marry them, to have children with them. He has been blind since
childhood. Love, marriage, children—all these, he imagines,
would make him whole.
And the women, Gigi, Vanessa, Lola and Kilty? What do they want?
It seems for a time that they too want to love him, marry him,
have his children. But desire is a dangerous emotion and the state
of being in love both illusory and mysterious.
In spare and elegant prose, Ved Mehta transforms that most subjective
of all human acts, falling in love, into an objective account.
Without justification and without excuses, he documents the twists
and turns of an extraordinary personal history that soars and
dips with expectation and anguish, until, in his search for self-understanding,
he meets a surprising guide who shows the way to new insight about
women he has loved and about himself.
Few other writers are such compelling and vivid witnesses to
their private lives; few other men have been so honest about their
misunderstanding and failures in the business of love.
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Excerpted Reviews
"[A] truthful and heartbreaking account of the pursuit,
and loss, of love.... The book is remarkable. Mehta is a great
stylist; combine this with a story of searing honesty and you
have a book that demands an intense response." – Sunday
Times (UK)
"Written with a calm lucidity, this is more than the story
of the sentimental education of an exceptionally brave and gifted
man. It is a subtle examination of the relationship between thought
and feeling; the crucial links between the ability to love and
the ability to work." – Daily
Telegraph (UK)
"[The reader] will become immersed in stories that make
for poignant and occasionally hilarious reading...the ultimate
effect is that the reader is allowed to see things whole, false
moves as well as true." – The
New York Times Book Review
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