5 MINUTES WITH SHUBNUM KHAN
YOU South Africa|29 February 2024
The Durban author tells YOU about her spellbinding tale about love, life and a strange, old house
JANE VORSTER
5 MINUTES WITH SHUBNUM KHAN

WHEN local author Shubnum Khan set to work on her new novel, The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil, she wanted to write a love story. "But when I started it, I realised you couldn't tell a story about love without telling a story about life," she says.

Akbar Manzil isn't a person but rather a sprawling mansion near Durban and this is the epic tale of two women who live in it eight decades apart and the terrible secrets that it holds.

"It's a bit of adventure, a bit of a love story, a bit of a horror and a bit of fantasy - it's going to take you on a journey through many different feelings, Shubnum says.

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