A fantastical historical novel, narrated bya child yet to be born, traces the lives of three generations of Parsi family in India from the late 1800s to the present day. It follows the family from the intracacies of village life in the jungles of central India to the complications of urban life in the turbulent pre and post-independence struggles to contemporary diasporic realitlies in the United Kingdom and the US.
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Ashok Mathur is the author of two previous novels, both published by Arsenal: Once Upon an Elephant and The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar. He is the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, Canada.
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