If You Are Afraid of Heights

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 294. Pictorial wraps.

Finalist for the 2003 Hutch-Crossword Book Award. Author's second book, following his critically acclaimed literary debut, The Blue Bedspread (1999). Three seemingly unrelated yet thematically linked stories comprising a set of intertwined characters interacting across a blighted Indian city, in which the social classes lead vastly segregated lives.

Raised in the West Bengal capital of Calcutta, Jha currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, an English-language daily newspaper published in Mumbai. "Jha is a remarkable writer." –Sunday Times