by Catherine Clément · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782286050009
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«Pour l'amour de l'Inde» is the historical novel by Catherine Clément, published by Flammarion in paperback (504 pages, in French).
During the partition of India, Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the last British viceroy, and Jawaharlal Nehru, future prime minister of India, live an impossible love. The novel interweaves religious violence and independence with the nightly letters and annual meetings they maintained for twelve years.
The author, Catherine Clément, is a philosopher and feminist; she lived in India for four years. The novel was originally published in 1993.
For readers of historical fiction and accounts of the end of the British Empire in India and the partition.
Catherine Clément is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born to a Jewish mother in Boulogne-Billancourt. She received a degree in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure, and studied under its faculty Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. A member of the school of French feminism and écriture féminine, she has published books with Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva. She has also made contributions to musicology; her Opera, or the Undoing of Women (1979) is notable for its emphasis on the representation of women in opera.
