About the Book
When Uma marries Toby, he brings to her comfortable life among Delhi’s moneyed elite a depth that was otherwise missing. Toby’s passion for his wife is matched only by his love for classical India, its language and its art. But in the new India, one transformed by rapacious energy and aspiration, there is little room for such romanticism. Uma and Toby will find that they have built their marriage on a fault line. Decades later, their son, Skanda travels to India to return his father’s body to his birthplace. This is a journey that takes him halfway around the world and deep within three generations of his family, whose fractures, frailties and toxic legacies he has always sought to elude.
About the Author
Aatish Taseer was born in 1980. He is the author of Stranger to History, a Costa-shortlisted first novel, The Temple-Goers and the highly acclaimed Noon. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. He lives between New Delhi and New York
About the Book When Uma marries Toby, he brings to her comfortable life among Delhi’s moneyed elite a depth that was otherwise missing. Toby’s passion for his wife is matched only by his love for classical India, its language and its art. But in the new India, one transformed by rapacious energy and aspiration, there is little room for such romanticism. Uma and Toby will find that they have built their marriage on a fault line. Decades later, their son, Skanda travels to India to return his father’s body to his birthplace. This is a journey that takes him halfway around the world and deep within three generations of his family, whose fractures, frailties and toxic legacies he has always sought to elude. About the Author Aatish Taseer was born in 1980. He is the author of Stranger to History, a Costa-shortlisted first novel, The Temple-Goers and the highly acclaimed Noon. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. He lives between New Delhi and New York