Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness.Twenty years of failure ...
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distracted...
A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years -- an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss“A novel ...