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For fans of Balli Kaur Jaswal's Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows and Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us, Alka Josh's The Henna Artist by is lushly-rendered, emotional book club fiction set in post-Raj 1950s Jaipur about a young woman struggling to shape her own destiny in a world pivoting between the traditional and the modern.

Tasked with her first major project, Radha travels to India, where she enlists the help of her sister, Lakshmi, and the courtesans of Agra-women who use the power of fragrance to seduce, tease and entice.

From the author of Reese's Book Club Pick The Henna Artist comes the final chapter in Alka Joshi's trilogy that takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha's budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of her family and the secrets of her past.Paris, 1974. Radha is now living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two daughters. She still grieves for the baby boy she gave up years ago, when she was only a child herself, but she loves being a mother to her daughters, and she's finally found her passion--the treasure trove of scents.She has an exciting and challenging position working for a master perfumer, helping to design completely new fragrances for clients and building her career one scent at a time. She only wishes Pierre could understand her need to work. She feels his frustration, but she can't give up this thing that drives her.Tasked with her first major project, Radha travels to India, where she enlists the help of her sister, Lakshmi, and the courtesans of Agra--women who use the power of fragrance to seduce, tease and entice. She's on the cusp of a breakthrough when she finds out the son she never told her husband about is heading to Paris to find her--upending her carefully managed world and threatening to destroy a vulnerable marriage.The Jaipur Trilogy: Book 1: The Henna ArtistBook 2: The Secret Keeper of JaipurBook 3: The Perfumist of Paris

Sterkt og fengende portrett av en ung kvinnes kamp for å overleve i et samfunn som svinger mellom det tradisjonelle og det moderne. Hennapiken åpner en dør inn til en verden som er både frodig og fascinerende, sterk og grusom. 17 år gamle Lakshmi flykter fra sin voldelige ektemann til det pulserende 1950-tallets Jaipur, Den rosa byen. Med tiden blir hun en etterspurt hennakunstner og vinner fortroligheten til de velstående overklassekvinner. Men selv om hun kjenner til alle deres hemmeligheter, kan hun aldri røpe sine egne... Lakshmi er kjent både for sine spesielle hennategninger og sine kloke råd, men hun må trå forsiktig, for mange misunner henne posisjonen hun har fått. Stygge rykter kan ødelegge hennes omdømme og levebrød. Da ektemannen en dag plutselig dukker opp, står alt hun så omhyggelig har klart å bygge opp, i fare for å kollapse...