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A riveting story of love, revenge, and retribution across continents and generations. Antony from Cochin, India lands in London in the thick of the Fuhrer's wrath on Britain. He has the strange company of Ali Abdulla from Kashmir, brought to the island nation by Peter Scot, a racehorse tycoon. The stage is thus set for an era of intense intrigue, passionate love, and bloody revenge leading up to the bombing of the high-speed Channel train connecting London with Paris. How an award-winning British born young engineer's mind works to wreck the ambitious project lends an explosive end to the novel. Alternatively set in India's greenest state of Kerala and the most beautiful place on earth Kashmir and London, the hub of the remains of a superpower that once ruled the world and ruled the waves. Story of an ethnic minority's yearning for survival in a melting pot of many cultures that is the UK.
Karoor Soman
‘Thames has Malabar on Fire’ is the debut novel in English by Karoor Soman, who has to his credit a large number of works in his native Malayalam language, one of several classical languages in his birthplace, India. Soman migrated to the United Kingdom after a stint in West Asia.
A prolific writer of fiction, short stories, novels, plays, poems and travelogues, Karoor Soman has grossed a number of accolades for his prodigious pen. He is also recognized as one of the top producers of Indian diaspora literature.
‘Kaneerpookkal’ (Floral Tears) is his debut novel in Malayalam. ‘Kalpadukal’ (Footsteps) is the first Malayalam novel from Europe. ‘Kadalinakkare’ (Across the Ocean) was the first play from West Asia in the same language, staged at the Indian Embassy School at Doha. ‘Kalapporinte Naadu’ (Land of the Bullfight) is the latest of his travelogues, based on a 2014 tour of Spain.
He is a native of Thamarakulam near Mavelikara, in Kerala, India. Karoor Samuel is his father and mother, Raichel. Settled in London with wife Omana Thiyattukunnel and children Rajiv, Simmi and Sibin.
