Wow, I was blown away by the way the characters are developed, & how a plot of misery-turning-to-greater-misery leaves me not in dispair, but hopeful somehow… Mistry creates characters, & then shows their lives w/o playing to the reader’s emotions… artfully conceived & executed!

also, as a historical novel, this gives more of a sense of what might have been realistic in Indira Ghandi’s reign…

wow!