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.
“Ambitious, searching, highly readable.”- Hanya Yanagihara
“One of the best novels I’ve read in years.’ Shashi Tharoor
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
