Three stinging, darkly comic tales capture in telling detail life and survival in today's India.

In the title story a sweeper discovers  (+)

Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child ... She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum  (+)

Born into an affluent family, Bonnie, Tor and Ula have been left to the feckless embrace of the cook and their nanny. Their father is dead. Their glamorous  (+)

'Elegant and elegiac' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Guardian

'A writer of spectacular talent' Observer

On the  (+)

Official tie-in to the Netflix Original Film featuring Idris Elba (Thor, Prometheus and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) and directed  (+)