Jamal Khan, a psychoanalyst in his fifties living in London, is haunted by memories of his teens: his first love, Ajita; the exhilaration of sex, drugs and politics; and a brutal act of violence which changed his life for ever. Jamals teenage traumas make a shocking return into his present life. Paperback , 520 pages Published 2009 by Faber and Faber (first published 2008)