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The Clasp

The Clasp

Singh, Divyavardhan

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ISBN10: 9374261502
ISBN13: 9789374261507
Publisher: Orangebooks Publication
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 434
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Lisbon, 1481. Rajan Malik, an Indian spice merchant stranded in a city that refuses to see him, writes forty-one letters to the infant son he cannot protect, hiding them beneath a floorboard in a language the world tried to erase. Over twenty-two years he records every morning, every clasp of a small hand, every choice that costs him everything. He buries his prayer beads before they can be taken. He names his daughter in a language no priest recognizes. He chooses love over survival, and pays the price. The final letter stops mid-sentence at you will. Thirty-eight years later, on the Malabar Coast, a son who never knew his father's voice completes the answer. A novel about love practiced in silence, grief that exists before loss, and what survives when everything else is erased.

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