About the Book: New New Delhi Book Club
THE PORTRAIT OF A COMMUNITY, IN THIS CASE A DELHI NEIGHBOURHOOD, FACING THE
UNCERTAINLY OF THE PANDEMIC TOGETHER.
As the pandemic brings India to a halt, an elderly woman falls down in her home
and hears her leg break. Next door, a young girl stuck indoors persuades her
taciturn old neighbour to set up a book club. A few doors down, a wife
contemplates the plans she once made with an ex-boyfriend as her husband grows
distant. A young boy falls in love with a girl on the rooftop across. A market
trader battles against being housebound until his