The Girl with the Golden Parasol

Uday Prakash’s novel of contemporary India is a tender love story—university student Rahul is swept away by a “sweet fever” of love for Anjali, the enchanting girl with the golden parasol. But Prakash’s tale is set in a world where the 3,000-year-old Hindu caste system still holds sway and social realities doom the chances of a non-Brahmin boy who loves a Brahmin girl.

The translation was published in 2008 by Penguin India and later in 2013 by Yale University Press. This is one of the first translated work of Uday Prakash to be published in the U.S.