Vodafone Crossword Fiction Award Winner 2008 Set in 1970s and 80s India, 90s England and in the first decade of twentieth-century Bengal, on the eve of the Partition, this book is about dislocations and alienations, about outsiders and losers, about the tenuous and unconscious intersections of lives and histories and about the consolations of storytelling. Paperback , 320 pages Published January 16th 2009 by Picador