Amber Dusk - Rajat Chaudhuri's first novel.

Amber Dusk - Rajat Chaudhuri's first novel.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Parc de la Villette

Someone took this snap of mine at the Parc de la Villette in Paris. This park, a master design of Bernard Tschumi is a must visit for lovers of architecture and design and was built over a huge slaughterhouse in this area. Paris is an abiding theme and setting for Amber Dusk.

Lake Malren

Lake Malaren of Stockholm is at the heart of the novel. I had taken this photograph of Malaren one chilly evening sitting on the deck of the barge restaurant-The Ludwigschafen. Don't ask me what camera...

Jacket Designs

This is an early jacket design for the book. At that point the novel seems to have a different title! Many different versions of this design were tried but finally the quality of the image was not good enough. I took this photograph of a whirling dervish (coloured red) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The woman in the foreground was in the audience.