603 pages
English language
Published March 17, 2001 by Alfred A. Knopf.
603 pages
English language
Published March 17, 2001 by Alfred A. Knopf.
A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.