PRAISE

"If book reviews just cut to the chase, this one would simply read: This is a terrific novel! Read it!" —The Boston Globe

"A sprawling and delicate book, like an ancient landscape glittering in the rain. . . . Desai has a touch for alternating humor and impending tragedy that one associates with the greatest writers, and her prose is uncannily beautiful." —O: The Oprah Magazine

"Extraordinary . . . .Lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender."
—The New York Times Book Review (front page review)

"Briskly paced and sumptuously written, the novel ponders questions of nationhood, modernity, and class, in ways both moving and revelatory." —New Yorker