Briefly, the goal here is to create a good golf novel. 
The hope is the game might also be enjoyed this way — with eyes fixed upon a rich moral tale.
Nicolas Kumar tells the story of a 17-year-old’s attempt to scratch out some understanding of his place in this world. It is a quite unsentimental rendering of a youth’s anxieties while traversing the brutally harsh wild.
Aspects of The Big Three — Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus — are included in the project, in an imaginative sense, as I wanted to make this something of a giveback from the fans. Readers who enjoy a thoughtful story, who like the occasional arresting line, through perhaps an uncommon prose, might find something for them in this innocence-to-experience novel that puts Mother Nature firmly to the fore.
Those interested in following along here – Welcome! Please know I intend to post up 1 chapter of Nicolas Kumar every Saturday for the next 4 years – beginning February 7, 2009.
The action takes place in Northern India, high up in the Indian Himalayas. The story will eventually handle all 18 holes, in an otherwise normal round of golf. It will be told hole by hole, through irascible provocations, on a monster course that is 84 kilometers long. The novel will initially appear in serial form …
… and first up is Valley of Flowers. This short novel comes in at around 180 pages (50,000 words) and covers all of the 1st hole, only.
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