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
A novel of vaulting ambition and tenderness, about how histories, both personal and national, are built, refracted and revised.Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies
Amitava Kumar has the precious ability to write across borders and cultures.Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland
