{"product_id":"sylvia-distant-avuncular-ends-by-maithreyi-karnoor-author","title":"Sylvia: Distant Avuncular Ends – By Maithreyi Karnoor (Author)","description":"\u003cp\u003eStep into a masterfully spun, kaleidoscopic world where geographic borders blur under the weight of deep emotional inheritance. In \u003cb\u003eSylvia: Distant Avuncular Ends\u003c\/b\u003e, celebrated poet and translator Maithreyi Karnoor delivers a breathtakingly original, boldly experimental debut novel. \u003cspan class=\"citation-329 citation-end-329\"\u003eSeamlessly blending poetic rhythms with rich, evocative prose, this screen-free literary masterpiece offers a poignant, fast-paced meditation on displacement, shared traumas, and the complex human anchors that hold us together\u003cspan class=\"citation-328\"\u003eThe narrative follows Cajetan Pereira, affectionately known as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan class=\"citation-328\"\u003eBhaubaab\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"citation-328 citation-end-328\"\u003e (brother-sir) by the locals of the coastal village he now calls home.\u003csup class=\"superscript\"\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e While Cajetan actively unearths his ancestral lineage in the soil of Goa, his heart remains intensely tethered to his childhood home in Tanzania. \u003cspan class=\"citation-327 citation-end-327\"\u003eHe pours this profound, cross-continental longing into a singular, symbolic project: living beside a rare, mystical baobab tree on land that belongs to him for purely historical reasons.\u003csup class=\"superscript\"\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"citation-326 citation-end-326\"\u003eInto this quiet, strange idyll walks Sylvia, a enigmatic young woman actively searching for a narrative.\u003csup class=\"superscript\"\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e As they unearth a surprising ancestral connection, the two form an intense bond shaped by the historic, systemic violence that altered their individual life paths. \u003cspan class=\"citation-325 citation-end-325\"\u003eComplemented by an uncanny, entertaining relationship with their quirky, aspiring film-star neighbor, the novel brings Sylvia into brilliant, multi-dimensional focus.\u003csup class=\"superscript\"\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"citation-324 citation-end-324\"\u003eShe evolves rapidly before the reader—revealed as a colleague, a trusted friend, a wife, a prospective lover, and ultimately, a woman fiercely navigating her own individual existence across multiple landscapes.\u003csup class=\"superscript\"\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eRather than letting its unique structural layout and lyrical storytelling dissolve into a dense block of text, \u003ci\u003eSylvia\u003c\/i\u003e charts its cross-cultural narrative across four scannable, structural dimensions:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BEETLE BOOK SHOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52389392187675,"sku":null,"price":339.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/2150\/0699\/files\/91r1Css5LWL._SL1500.jpg?v=1782204420","url":"https:\/\/beetlebookshop.com\/hi\/products\/sylvia-distant-avuncular-ends-by-maithreyi-karnoor-author","provider":"Beetle Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}