Description

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the job of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all of the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The full time is 1975. The area is definitely an unnamed city by the ocean. The federal government has just declared a Situation of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who've fled the caste violence of the native village--is likely to be thrust together, forced to generally share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.