Jaipur artist. Joshi Alka

The life that you are painstakingly build can be at risk at any time.

Lakshmi knows this very well. She was married at fifteen years old, and at seventeen she fled from the unloved husband and ended up in Jaipur, a pink city, majestic and merciless. A city where you can get rich very quickly and lose everything as quickly.

Lakshmi really needs to get rich, because her dream is not dependent on anyone. Her talents do not know the boundaries, but the main thing is that she is a healer and artist and has reached perfection in this. Her mehendi are famous for the whole city, noble ladies are ready to generously pay for her healing decoctions and magic patterns of henna.

It would seem that the goal is close. But Jaipur does not forgive mistakes. A novel that has become an absolute bestseller. The choice of the book club Riz Witherspoon. “The artist from Jaipur” is primarily the story of a woman who, dreaming of independence, creates her own fate, without stopping at anything. And in the middle of the last century in India it was oh how difficult. And at any moment the life that she painstakingly builds may be at risk.