The Perfumer's House. A Book of Eternal Values

On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij meets the beautiful Firdaus Khan for the first time in his family's perfume shop in Lahore. The young perfumer and the budding calligrapher fall in love with each other and dream of a shared future, but while the struggle for India's independence rages on, civil war arrives in their hometown. Suddenly, they find themselves on opposite sides of the barricades: Samir, a Hindu, becomes an Indian, while the Muslim Firdaus becomes a Pakistani, and their love is now forbidden. Separated by fate, the lovers make a series of fateful decisions that will forever change the course of their lives… "A Book of Eternal Values" is an epic novel and a dramatic family saga about unwilling participants in historical events, family ties, and the ancient art of perfumery.