About the Book

Brunching with Ophelia presents a slice of life entrenched in cultural schizophrenia in our capital city, New Delhi. As Ivy Roy, a lecturer of English literature, virtually resurrects Ophelia, the almost aphasic woman behind the universal man screaming “Words, Words, Words”, her now husband and erstwhile chat-friend Shumonto Roy retreats into the deep well of wordlessness, mourning the loss of his ex-girlfriend Irene Scott.

Is Shumonto turning into a latter-day Prince Hamlet of the virtual world? Will today's Ophelia speak up, turn into a voracious wordsmith to counter his oppressive silence? Suddenly the characters who had met in a nebulous world of the Internet are confronted by the perils of the real. Which is the fantasy world? Or do they inhabit a placeless space somewhere in between? Do they live multiple lives giving births to newer selves every time they give themselves a new screen name?

In her debut novel, the author lets loose a refraction of university life, heavily coloured by pigments of imagination. And the refracting prism of this overground campus life is the netherworld of anonymous chat-windows and webcam-facilitated screen-dalliances.

About the Author

Angshukanta Chakraborty was born in 1981 in Kolkata but moved to Delhi at a very early age. She studied English Literature at the Hindu College, University of Delhi, a place which offered her quite a few people to revere in her otherwise irreverently godless life. Currently doing her PhD in South-Asian diasporic cinema at the University of East London, Angshukanta also writes poetry