THE LOST LOVE OF AKBAR MANZIL

308pp., paperback, First SA Edition, Johannesburg, 2024

First published in the UK, Ireland and Australia in 2024.

When Sana and her father move into Akbar Manzil, a crumbling mansion outside Durban, she decides to uncover the history of the house.

"A story - a history really - elegiacally written and filled with everything that makes for an absorbing read: love, intrigue, conflict, mystique, and so much character ... The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil invites us to examine South Africa's issues of race, class and gender through a refreshingly unique lens." Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, author of The City of Kings Trilogy

Shubnum Khan is the author of the novel  Onion Tears and the essay collection How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo and Other Stories. She lives in Durban.