The Solitude of Emperors

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. 160, [xii, blank]. Pictorial wraps.

Author's second novel, set in 1990s Bombay and focusing on modern India's conflict with its fundamentalist core. Short-listed for a 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize. By the author of House of Blue Mangoes (2002). "Davidar is a true novelist, delighted by details, interested in allowing his characters to reveal themselves. In short it's a novel of feeling as well as of ideas, and a delightful and thoroughly satisfying one." –Allan Massie, The Scotsman