Publisher's Synopsis
A stunning new collection from a master storytellerThe best Indian prose writer of his generation here confirms his reputation with a superlative collection of stories and a poignant memoir. The stories, set for the most part in modern Bombay and Calcutta, are by turns moving and funny. Some explore the lives of the post-Independence upper classes, their relations to each other and to the concepts of celebrity, popular culture, art and tradition; others are vibrant and enticing retellings of episodes from Hindu mythologies such as the Ramayana. The finale of the book, a verse memoir E-Minor, is a elegant and powerful meditation on the writer's Bombay origins, in the best tradition of Indian autobiography.
