Publisher's Synopsis
This is a remarkable book which vividly evokes the first 24 years of the author's life in Calcutta and in his ancestral village in East Bengal.
About the Publisher
Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.
