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Red Book, The

Meaghan Delahunt

Three strangers meet in India, and their lives are changed forever.
Françoise, an Australian photographer, comes to Bhopal to bear witness to the city’s continuing trauma, where twenty years earlier a gas leak at the Union Carbide factory killed thousands. There she meets Naga, a Tibetan refugee whose family died in the disaster, and Arkay, a Scottish traveller battling addiction, who has found solace in Buddhism.
As a testament to their time together, Françoise assembles photographs from their lives in an album, the Red Book. The photographs tell their stories of love, struggle and transformation - pointing to the people they have been and who they will become.
Meaghan Delahunt’s second novel, The Red Book, beautifully realizes the voices of its three narrators, showing how lives entwine and split apart. It captures the irresistible lure of India for outsiders and its complex spiritual and political history. Written in vivid, imaginative and resonant language, it is a meditation on the relations between East and West, on personal and collective responsibility, and on ways of being in the world.

Publishers:

UK - Granta
France - Editions Metailie

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