SIRENS OF SEPTEMBER
Zeenath Khan
SIRENS OF SEPTEMBER - 1 - Haryana Penguin Books 2025 - 398
A sweeping historical coming-of-age novel set against India’s 1948 takeover of Hyderabad, The Sirens of September shifts between the palaces of princely Hyderabad, the refugee camps of post-Partition Bombay, army command rooms and the seedy lanes of London’s Piccadilly. Farishteh Ali Khan, an aristocratic teenager who enjoys a gilded existence, tumbles into a web of international espionage, political intrigue and dark family secrets. A few chance meetings between her and an air force pilot, Saleem El Edroos, lead to them striking up a long-distance courtship. When Hyderabad falls, the new regime makes the Ali Khans and the Edrooses answer for their old loyalties. The one person who can come to their aid can also tear Farishteh’s family apart.
9780143471608
Purchased Prism Books, Kadavanthra
Fiction
Novel
Partition, and Espionage
Historical Fiction
Hyderabad’s Fall, Partition, and a Story of Love, Secrets, and Betrayal
Historical Fiction of Hyderabad 1948
F / ZEE/SI
SIRENS OF SEPTEMBER - 1 - Haryana Penguin Books 2025 - 398
A sweeping historical coming-of-age novel set against India’s 1948 takeover of Hyderabad, The Sirens of September shifts between the palaces of princely Hyderabad, the refugee camps of post-Partition Bombay, army command rooms and the seedy lanes of London’s Piccadilly. Farishteh Ali Khan, an aristocratic teenager who enjoys a gilded existence, tumbles into a web of international espionage, political intrigue and dark family secrets. A few chance meetings between her and an air force pilot, Saleem El Edroos, lead to them striking up a long-distance courtship. When Hyderabad falls, the new regime makes the Ali Khans and the Edrooses answer for their old loyalties. The one person who can come to their aid can also tear Farishteh’s family apart.
9780143471608
Purchased Prism Books, Kadavanthra
Fiction
Novel
Partition, and Espionage
Historical Fiction
Hyderabad’s Fall, Partition, and a Story of Love, Secrets, and Betrayal
Historical Fiction of Hyderabad 1948
F / ZEE/SI