Oxford Book Store and Prakriti Foundation are privileged to release the novel, "The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos" (Hachette USA 2009) by Margaret Mascarenhas

Venue: Oxford Book Store, Haddows Road at 7pm.

Ranvir Shah will be in conversation with the author.

In 'The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos', Mascarenhas uses a 15-year-old girl's disappearance to spin a multilayered history of a Venezuelan family, incorporating folklore, political intrigue and magical realism...This family epic is immersive; no character or event is left unexplored from multiple perspectives. Indeed, the conclusion is like the final piece of an intricate puzzle - Publishers Weekly

Margaret Mascarenhas is a consulting editor, columnist and novelist, the author of the Diasporic novel, Skin, published by Penguin India (2001); in French translation by Mercure de France (2002); in Portuguese translation by Editora Replicacao (2006).

An American citizen of Goan origin who grew up in Venezuela, she currently lives in Goa and is the Director of Sunaparanta - Goa Centre for the Arts. She is working on her third novel, Just Another Car Bomb (working title) as well as on collections of her columns, short stories and poems.