Sepia-toned Calcutta

This is a novel about the fin de siecle temper of Calcutta at the turn of the Raj. It is an elegy on the passage of an era and a way of life conceived allegorically as a domestic tale, a love story. Its writing is testimony to an emergent trend in contemporary Indian writing in English, a kind of middlebrow fiction that does well because it’s light, zippy, and so does not unduly tax readers’ time and understanding.

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