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New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI/PRNewswire): HarperCollins India is delighted to announce that it has acquired the rights to publish Naheed Phiroze Patel s brilliant coming-of-age novel, A Mirror Made of Rain.
Publishing under the prestigious Fourth Estate imprint and set for release in April 2021, this intricately textured work of fiction, is both riveting and discomfiting, as it brings alive a world and characters that are complex, layered and flawed, yet breathtakingly real.
The book has elicited some warm advance praise and here s what writer Diksha Basu has to say about it, A Mirror Made of Rain is luminous - a blistering and unflinching commentary on family, love, pain, addiction and destruction. We are lucky to have Naheed Patel writing.