Anuradha Roy's enthralling novel is a powerful parable for our times, telling the story of men and women trapped in a dangerous era uncannily similar to the present. Impassioned, elegiac, and gripping, it brims with the same genius that has brought Roy's earlier fiction international renown. "One of India's greatest living authors.
Myshkin has lived with the absence of his mother, Gayatri, ever since she left India with an Englishman, breaking away from tradition in pursuit of artistic freedom. Haunted by her disappearance, he embarks on a search for answers, uncovering fragments of her past and the choices that led her far from home.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1930s India and a world on the brink of war, Gayatri’s story unfolds across continents and political upheaval. As Myshkin delves deeper, he discovers a life shaped by rebellion, love, and exile, and begins to understand the powerful forces that tore his family apart.