The Ground Beneath Her Feet

First US edition. Thick 8vo., pp. x, 575. Quarter-bound black cloth over charcoal grey paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine; blue endpapers. Metallic silver dustwrapper printed in blue, with blurb praise from Toni Morrison, Don DelLillo and others.

Winner of the 2000 Eurasian Commonwealth Writers Prize. Short-listed for the Booker Prize. Vina Apsara, a much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake – never to be seen by human eyes again. A re-telling of the Orpheus and Eurydice legend largely set in New York. "[An] exuberant and elegiac new novel...his best since Midnight's Children." –The New York Times