Zen by Shabnam Minwalla. Published in 2023 by Duckbill Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd, 4th Floor, Capital Tower 1, M. G. Road, Gurgaon 122001. Pp: 602. Price : Rs 499.
Shabnam Minwalla’s (pictured) latest novel Zen is a gripping and absorbing book. Apart from her non-fiction book, Colaba: The Diamond at the Tip of Mumbai (see "Colabawalla or Old Womankar,” Books, Parsiana, January 21-February 6, 2021) most, if not all her novels, have so far been written for the "young adult.”
In Zen, we see another facet of Minwalla as an author. Born to a Parsi father......