Long-listed for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
"A wonderful debut . . . Undeniably moving and emotionally true." - Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)
Most of us have experienced what it's like to know what someone is going...
In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly...