The highest selling English fiction debut of the year in India.

Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008.

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Finance expert Tara Malhotra, forced to quit her job and follow her husband on a job promotion and transfer back from the States – and hating  (+)

Her strong sense of self reduced by an overpowering love-sickness that she can do little to contain, Avidha finds her commitment to the cause beginning  (+)

Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother's memories of Paris before the Great War. Yet despite what  (+)

In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling  (+)