Esther David received the Sahitya Akade­mi award in 2010 for her nov­el Book of Rachel. She is also the author of The Walled City, By the Sabar­mati, Book of Esther, My Father’s Zoo, Shalom India Hous­ing Soci­ety and The Man with Enor­mous Wings. Her nov­els are based on the Jew­ish ethos in India, stud­ied by schol­ars, and some of them have been trans­lat­ed into French, Gujarati and Marathi. She is an art crit­ic and colum­nist for the Ahmed­abad edi­tion of the Times of India and has writ­ten exten­sive­ly about the city of her birth.