Forty years after he left, Vidhu Mirani-the Pritzker Prize winning architect whom Karl Lagerfeld once called the Coco Chanel of today-returns to India when the Prime Minister invites him to design a new public library for the capital New Delhi. But a chance encounter in a park now puts him at the centre of a political controversy and forces him to revisit a past that he thought he had left behind.

As his curiosity unspools into something resembling regret, his old friend Hanif Allana, furiously mastering a grief of his own, engages him in a desperate, obsessive cat-and-mouse game. Binding the two men is Tanya Sinha, the woman they both loved, but neither truly knew.

As each exhumes personal history to locate missing pieces of the puzzle they have individually carried within them for years, painful memories begin to surface.

The Architect’s Dream is a novel that asks the primordial question-how haunted are we by the secrets of others?-with a psychologically suspenseful twist that both devastates and redeems.

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