308pp., paperback, expanded edition, Johannesburg, (2024) 2025

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.

THE LOST LOVE OF AKBAR MANZIL

: Khan (S.)

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