A novel set in India during the Emergency, by the author of "Such a Long Journey". In the tiny flat of the widowed Dina Dalal, two tailors and a young student struggle to put together a new life of sorts amid the crisis, and in the course of doing so encounter a vivid cast of characters.
Awards
Winner of Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1996 and Commonwealth Writers Prize 1996. Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1996.
