From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and “one of India's
greatest living authors”(O, The Oprah Magazine), a poignant and sweeping novel set in
India during World War II and the present day about a son's quest to uncover the truth about
his mother. In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an
Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in small‑town India in those days, all white
foreigners were largely thought of as British. So begins the “gracefully wrought”(Kirkus …