Six Days in Bombay, Alka Joshi
Six Days in Bombay, Alka Joshi
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Six Days in Bombay

Author: Alka Joshi

Narrator: Sneha Mathan

Unabridged: 12 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/15/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

"A sparkling travelogue and a poignant journey of self-discovery all in one. . . . Alka Joshi is simply the best!" —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Rose Code

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist, this sweeping novel of identity and self-discovery takes readers from Bombay to Prague, Florence, Paris and London, to uncover the mystery behind a famous painter's death.

When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage, she's expected to make a quick recovery, and her nurse, Sona, is excited to learn more about the vivacious artist who shares her half-Indian identity. Sona, yearning for a larger life, finds herself carried away by Mira's stories of her travels and exploits and is shocked by accounts of the many lovers the painter has left scattered throughout Europe. When Mira dies quite suddenly and mysteriously, Sona falls under suspicion, and her quiet life is upended. 
 
The key to proving Sona's innocence may lie in a cryptic note and four paintings Mira left in her care, sending the young woman on a mission to visit the painter's former friends and lovers across a tumultuous Europe teetering toward war. On the precipice of discovering her own identity, Sona learns that the painter's charming facade hid a far more complicated, troubled soul. 
 
In her first stand-alone novel since her bestselling debut, The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi uses the life of painter Amrita Sher-Gil, the "Frida Kahlo of India," as inspiration for the story's beginning to explore how far we'll travel to determine where we truly belong.

Discover more novels from Alka Joshi:THE HENNA ARTISTTHE SECRET KEEPER OF JAIPURTHE PERFUMIST OF PARIS

About Alka Joshi

Born in India and raised in the U.S. since she was nine, Alka Joshi has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. Joshi's debut novel, The Henna Artist,  immediately became a NYT bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub pick, was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, & is in development at Netflix as a TV series. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (2021) and The Perfumist of Paris (2023) completed the Jaipur Trilogy. Her fourth novel, Six Days in Bombay, will be released in February 2025. She is currently working on her fifth novel. In 2024, Joshi was selected for the Forbes 50 over 50 List, celebrating women who are shattering age and gender norms across all sectors of the American economy and culture.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cheryl on April 12, 2025

Joshi took me to 1937 Bombay where our Indo-English protagonist Sona a devoted young nurse who leads a sheltered life encounters patient Maya, a flamboyant painter and her life is forever changed. This was a perfect book for me as it blended two of my favorite genres…historical fiction and mystery. Th......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on January 11, 2025

Alki Joshi is an extremely talented storyteller and writer. I’ve read all her books and I love the way they transport me to India. An India that is both wonderful and horrible. Horrible, the way women are second class human beings. Horrible the way that even some women not only accept this - but bel......more

Goodreads review by Shantha (ShanthasBookEra) on December 22, 2024

Alka Joshi has another win with Six Days in Bombay! This historical fiction novel tells the poignant story of Sona, a night nurse at Bombay's Wadia Hospital, set against the vivid backdrop of British-ruled India in 1931. She meets patient Mira, a vivacious and famous painter who is based on the real......more

Goodreads review by Natalie all_books_great_and_small on April 27, 2025

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Goodreads review by Laura on November 03, 2024

I was so very excited when I saw there was a new book my Alka Joshi. The Henna Artist series is one of my favorite series, and I was so excited to jump into her newest stand alone book. Set in 1930's India, it paint a vivid picture of the caste system and the disruption of the British rule. It follo......more