DeScriPtionAn unnamed narrator writes a series of letters to his daughter, explaininghow his life has gone wrong. The letters, spanning the narrator's life in Indiaand England, and having as their unwavering focus his daughter and therelationship between them, speak of hopes unfulfilled, of promises broken.In prose of extraordinary beauty and power, Soumya Bhattacharya crafts astory of longing, love and loss. It is a story about how luck and chance and atwist in events can irrevocably alter our lives, a story of how love can lead tocatastrophe, and, ultimately, a story about the new India, and how its economycan make, and then break a man who always wanted only to be no more-andno less-than a writer.Haunting and tender, this is a remarkable novel from one of the mostdistinctive voices of his generation.
