The Lotus Position

“Six Days in Bombay” tells the fates of women in India and Europe in the early 1900s—their daily courage, sincere love, and true mastery. In India, in the 1930s, a young girl named Sona works as a nurse in a hospital, hoping her honest and difficult work will help her and her mother pull themselves out of poverty. Sona is responsible and hardworking, and she has every chance for a successful career. But everything becomes complicated when she befriends a new patient—Mira Novak, a well-known artist.

Meeting Mira awakens in Sona the realization that she lives too cautiously, avoiding risk and novelty, never trying to stand out. As an illegitimate daughter of an Indian woman and an Englishman, she doesn’t feel like she truly belongs to either of these peoples. However, after a chain of tragic events, Sona decides to take a risk and throw away all prejudices, to see the world and—perhaps—find her father, who abandoned her and her mother and stirs in her feelings of both love and hatred.

In cities like Prague, Paris, Milan, and London, Sona and the reader are introduced to the European bohemia of that turbulent time, when the looming sense of World War II was already hanging in the air. Where will this emotional journey lead?