A New World

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 192, [2]. Quarter-bound chili red cloth over cinnamon-orange boards, stamped in silver to spine; deckled fore-edges. Jacket design by John Gall (priced at $22.00 to front flap). The UK Picador first edition is hard to come by, as – reportedly – the entire first printing was exported to India.

Author's fourth book. A haunting novel that looks at two marriages – that of an elderly couple entrenched in their roles, and a modern marriage severed in two. "A pitch-perfect analysis of repressed and stunted emotion, and another triumph to set beside those of Desai, Rushdie, Roy, and especially R.K. Narayan." –Kirkus Reviews, Sept. 1, 2000.