Zeenath Khan

Zeenath Khan is a writer who divides her time between New York City and Hyderabad, India. The Sirens of September is her debut novel. She has written about history, travel, and current affairs for Scroll, Mint Lounge, Siasat and Literary Traveler. Aside from writing, she enjoys reading, working out, baking, and spending time with her friends and three grown-up children.

THE SIRENS OF SEPTEMBER (Historical Fiction, Published: Penguin Random House India)

Asweeping historical coming-of-age novel set against India’s 1948 takeover of Hyderabad, THE SIRENS OF SEPTEMBER tells the story of Farishteh AliKhan, an aristocratic teenager living a gilded existence who, in all innocence, stumbles into a web of international espionage, political intrigue, and dark family secrets. A few chance meetings with Air Force pilot Saleem El Edroos spark a long-distance courtship, but when Hyderabad falls, the new regime forces both the AliKhans and the Edroos family to answer for their old loyalties. With shifting narratives between the palaces of princely Hyderabad, the refugee camps of post-partition Bombay, army command rooms, rogue plane landings, and the seedy lanes of London’s Piccadilly, it soon becomes clear that the only person capable of saving Farishteh may also be the one who can tear her family apart.

Rights Sold: English – Indian Subcontinent
Rights Available: World English, Translation
Agent: Zeynep Sen