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In the vast city of Calcutta, four very different lives collide: Meena, a pretty middle-class girl, her head full of books and marriage: Putul, idle, amiable scion of the moneyed upper classes, too lazy to notice anything much: John, a young Scotsman in search of his family's Indian roots: and Choto, the slum-dwelling son of a humbel servant, making na increasingly perilous job of staying alive.
In a place where poverty and extravagance co-exist, these four young people lead parallel lives, inextricably linked to one another by family, proximity and sheer chance, but for the most part oblivious to the complex web of fate that ties their destinies together. It takes the events of one season to bring them together with catastrophic consequences.
The smell and colour of Indian city life, the corruption and petty crime, are all observed with a delicate humour and wry lyricism. This a wonderful debut novel from a new British-based Indian writer.
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