Khushwant Singh's The Sunset Club to be released today
His latest novel, The Sunset Club is about the stories of three old friends - Pandit Preetam Sharma, Nawab Barkatullah, Sardar Boota Singh. Gursharan Kaur, wife of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whom Khushwant Singh always introduced as Gatecrasher.
KHUSHWANT SINGH needs no introduction as an author, who is also known for his popular column 'Malice Towards One And All'. His way of writing is quite different from other authors that no one thinks of writing articles and books on topic on controversial topics like sex, love, scandal, love triangle and wine at the age of ninety-six. Few of his books have travelled outside India. Interestingly some of his books still needed foreign diplomacy clearance due to the errant topics. His latest novel, The Sunset Club is about the stories of three old friends - Pandit Preetam Sharma, Nawab Barkatullah, Sardar Boota Singh. Gursharan Kaur, wife of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whom Khushwant Singh always introduced as Gatecrasher. The book will be released today.
The plot is spare and simply told: in the dusk of their lives, three men spend a year in Delhi sharing their memories, observing on the headlines and scandals of the day, sharing the same metaphorical park bench. One of them, Boota Singh, bears a suspicious resemblance to the author; all of them are obsessed in varying degrees with memories of past sexual trysts, and Singh inserts a few lectures about religion and contemporary India.
The 96-year-old writer, one of India's most loved storytellers, is the author of classics like "Train to Pakistan", "I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale", "Delhi, The Company of Women" and "Burial at Sea". He also written two volume of non fiction "A History of the Sikhs" and published his autobiography, "Truth, Love and a Little Malice".
At its best, The Sunset Club is an honour to the Delhi found in Lodhi Gardens and Sujan Singh Park, where Khushwant Singh has lived much of his life. The book will definitely inspire scores of his fan and most impressive part is that at the age of ninety six he still retains his zest for writing and weekly column without a break, except in rare cases like illness, for decades.
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