By IANS
Chennai : Penguin Books India Friday launched here the Indian edition of noted publisher David Davidar’s second book, ‘The Solitude of Emperors’.
David Davidar (48), publisher of Penguin Canada, is now based in Toronto.
He was born in South India into a military family in 1962 and educated in India and at Harvard. As publisher of Penguin India, he has published Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy, Amitava Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry and many others.
Davidar’s first book, the ‘House of Blue Mangoes’, was widely acclaimed. It took him ten years to write it. ‘The House of Blue Mangoes’ is a story of the Soloman Dorai family of the small town Chevathar, set in southern India, in the Nilgiris.
In his second book, ‘The Solitude of Emperors’, the setting is again the Nilgiris, where begins the story of intrepid journalist Vijay and his journey through the Mumbai riots, ending in his tryst with what critics call, “India’s secularism”.
The 246-page book is priced at Rs 495.