Featured Interview With Ann D’Silva
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Ann D’Silva is an Indian writer who hails from the city that never sleeps, Mumbai. She has spent over two decades in the corporate world in senior management roles across the globe.
She is a humanitarian, passionate about CSR, and her initiative ‘India Heart’ works for women empowerment in rural India.
Passionate about words, she eventually discovered that writing was her calling and being a storyteller was an expression of her creativity.
She is an avid traveller, blogger, fashionista and entrepreneur. She relocated to Turkey in 2019 and lives in İstanbul.
Sand and Sea: Child of Two Worlds is her second book from the trilogy, and her first book, Footprints in the Sand, is translated in Turkish.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I was fascinated with poetry since childhood and could rhyme sentences whilst speaking more effortlessly, than doing maths or science. I was drawn to literature as I was a teenager and maintained a journal to spill my thoughts since I can remember.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I am classics girl. Jane Austin, Emily Bronte, Homer, Tolkien and of course J K Rowling in our times. I love to weave mystery, mysticism with love in reality. Spirituality and Nature inspire me.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
I am a child of two worlds,
essence of spirit and being.
I journey from a forgotten past to an unwritten future.
Torn by turbulent memories and pain.
Reduced to a parchment of tradition; a mere knot of some lost connection.
A victim of fate I am,
Stuck in a war between dreamers and unbelievers.
If only they listen,
I just wanna go home…
True love is ever entwined with a higher calling. The majestic Sand “Kum” and the mysterious Sea “Deniz” are immortal lovers, protectors, guardians of the path of Good “Taqwa” against Evil “Fujur”. Since the beginning of mankind, they have been relentlessly watching, aligning the path of true lovers across parallel lives for the ultimate payment of karmic debt.
Özcan Güneş, a young boy with simple desires finds himself on a path conflicting that of his identity. His longing for his soulmate from his dreams grows over the years.
Junaid, an unfortunate lad from the war-torn Syrian land, sees his fortunes take a turn when destiny crosses his path with a kind Imam, who offers him education and a better life.
Hannah, a Mumbai girl, seeks the love of her life in a faraway land, heeding to the call from her dreams and embarks on a journey to find him, in Turkey.
Returning to his home in Syria to be with his family, Junaid meets Bahr (Sea), an orphaned girl, falls in love and marries her albeit through fortunate circumstances and the kindness of many. Soon, the pain of displacement, the vulgarity of loss of life through war, and the suffering of the innocent at the sleeves of ego tear their lives apart.
Maryam, the child with magical powers, is fated to change all their lives. She is the nucleus that connects the past and the present. How did she come into Özcan’s life and what is her connection to Hannah?
Travel through the portal of Deniz in high tide across parallel lives. Karmic debt follows the protagonists as the war between Fujur and Taqwa brews at the shores of Dalyan and the hidden mystery of the countless grains of sand is revealed.
Take this journey to mystical places, sights of historic ruin, experiences of pain and joy, swim in the lyrical flow of poetry and much more.
Child of Two Worlds is the second book in the Sand and Sea Series.
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