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Kaavya’s novel being withdrawn from Indian stores

Penguin India, distributors for How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life here, got a communication from Little Brown on Friday night.

DNA Web Team

Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

NEW DELHI: After being withdrawn from United States markets, India-born novelist Kaavya Viswanathan's debut novel, tarnished by plagiarism charges, is being pulled out of Indian bookstores by its publishers.

Penguin India, distributors for the book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life here, got a communication from its publisher Little Brown on Friday night that the novel has to be withdrawn from Indian bookstores.

"We got a communication from Little Brown in the evening that the book has to be withdrawn from Indian markets,"
Penguin India spokesperson Hemali Sodhi said here.

Penguin India will ask the retailers to return the copies on Saturday.

Around 10,000 copies of the book, which made headlines for the record advance amount Viswanathan bagged, have already been distributed to retailers by Penguin in India, Sodhi said.

The publishers of the book have agreed to withdraw the book from the US market and asked retailers to return all copies following allegations of plagiarism.

Similarities were reported between the teenage author's debut novel and Megan F McCafferty's novels Sloppy Firsts (2001) and Second Helping (2003).

Expressing apologies to McCafferty and "anyone who felt they have been misled by these unintentional errors", Kaavya had said earlier this week said "while the central stories of my book and hers are completely different, I wasn't aware of how much I may have internalized McCafferty's words."

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