Blackbowl

You are an anomaly in the oldest strands of fates. What you dream are the memories of someone else’s life, stitched to your own. Pull one thread, and centuries move.

About the Book: Sachiel was once a rising star in Mumbai’s underground music scene. Today, he runs a quiet bistro, raises two adopted twins in a housing society, and keeps his turbulent past locked away. But when his former agent, Daniel, reaches out with a request for one final performance on the opening night of a jazz club by the Arabian Sea, Sachiel accepts—unwittingly stepping into a reckoning written long before he was born.

In Blackbowl, Pratik Shah’s sophomore novel, the boundaries between lives and deaths begin to bleed across time. From a boy crossing into a forbidden realm and a German merchant ship burning off the Goan coast, to an arthouse cartoonist’s backwards-running clock, a sentient scimitar, and a clandestine cult orchestrating a centuries-old ritual, disparate destinies violently collide. Tender and devastating, darkly funny and genuinely terrifying, Blackbowl is a brilliant composition about the weight of other people’s memories, what gets inherited, what gets lost, and what has quietly been following you all along.

Key Features & Benefits:

• Inventive Speculative Fiction: Blends magical realism, multi-layered historical threads, and modern narrative suspense into a seamless tapestry.

• Masterful Storytelling: Hailed as one of the most original and fearless voices in contemporary fiction, Pratik Shah delivers a richly textured sophomore novel.

• Compelling Protagonist: Follows Sachiel as he navigates ordinary domestic life juxtaposed against cosmic, inescapable fates.

• The Perfect Gift: An extraordinary, mind-bending read for fans of literary speculative fiction, complex multi-POV narratives, and modern Indian literature.