Synopsis
'This profound book is full of lives whose beauty lies in the wholeness of their telling.' – Salman Rushdie
'Kumar's late father’s life breaks like a slowly cresting wave over the sad and joyful ground of this story . . . Always deeply human; the heart is everywhere in these pages . . . beautiful, truthful fiction.' – James Wood, The...
Details
06 March 2025352 pages
9781035013715Imprint: Picador
Reviews
This profound book is full of lives whose beauty lies in the wholeness of their telling. A father, a daughter, a crime, a country being born, a migration, another country, a plague. “We are in touch with a great astonishing mystery when we put honest words down on paper to register a life and to offer witness. Everything else is ordinary,” Kumar writes. His novel offers magnificent witness, and is not ordinary but extraordinary.Salman Rushdie
Always deeply human, the heart is everywhere in these pages . . . Kumar's beautiful, truthful fiction rings with gratitude and anticipated grief.James Wood, The New Yorker
Shows what good fiction can achieve . . . A highly sophisticated, self-aware novel from a writer operating at the peak of his powersThe Federal (India)
Alienation and guilt, the emotional markers of migration, loom large in Kumar's ambitious and deceptive novelThe New York Times
