The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Limited first edition. Thick 8vo., pp. x, 575. #81 out of 150 copies (limitation unspecified), signed by the Author. Leather-bound in full black morocco, with gilt-lettering to spine, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, red silk bookmark in a black cloth slipcase.

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