If You Are Afraid of Heights - Hardcover

Jha, Raj Kamal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151011095 ISBN 13: 9780151011094

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004

Synopsis

A man and a woman meet in a midnight road accident and fall in love. A reporter arrives in a small town to uncover the story of a child's rape and murder. A young girl, shaken by suicides in her neighborhood, begins to fear for her parents' lives. These three tales, written by the author of the debut sensation The Blue Bedspread, come together in the looking-glass world of this magical novel, where nothing is quite what it seems, yet all is strangely familiar.

Drawing the reader deep into the uncharted zone between fantasy and reality and following the neglected souls of a vast country, If You Are Afraid of Heights is a breathtaking odyssey across the landscape of a changing urban India.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR "IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF HEIGHTS" "What we come to see, page by page, are the many synchronicities, concurrences and happenstance situations that imbue these interlocking vignettes with a profound and moving sense of the magical."--"The" "San Diego Union-Tribune" "From the author of the devastating "The Blue Bedspread" comes another stunning, multilevel novel of human suffering and uneasy hope . . . Read this one soonest. Undoubtedly one of the best of the year."--"AsianWeek"

From the Publisher:

This new novel by the author of The Blue Bedspread is truly one of the most profoundly original, deeply moving and extraordinarily beautiful books I have ever worked on. Raj Kamal Jha is an author to watch and this book is a real gem.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0151011095
• ISBN 13: 9780151011094
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 293