Six Days in Bombay is a work of historical fiction inspired by the sudden death of Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil. Set in 1937, the story follows Sona, a young Anglo-Indian nurse, as she travels from Bombay to Istanbul, Prague, Florence, Paris, and London to uncover the mystery behind the painter’s demise.   

Kansas City native Alka Joshi majored in art history at Stanford University and was fascinated by the story of the renowned artist and her unexplained death in 1941. Joshi thinks that had Sher-Gil lived beyond the age of 28, her name would be just as well-known as Frida Kahlo’s, Georgia O’Keeffe’s, or Mary Cassatt’s.    

Joshi is the bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times bestseller, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, and made many other bestseller lists. Six Days in Bombay is her fourth novel and has been translated into 30 languages.