Chander and Sudha

Reprinted over a hundred times and the basis of several films and TV series, this Hindi classic will now pull the heartstrings of readers in English with its tale of star-crossed lovers. Sometimes melodramatic, often philosophical, the novel offers a critique of the institution of Indian marriage which is as relevant to today as it was in 1949 when the book was first published as Gunahon ka Devta (The Deity of Sin).