It is an improbable and hauntingly
beautiful love story, almost surreal in its innocence.
An Indian
man writes to a Japanese woman. She writes back. The pen-friends fall in love and exchange their vows over letters, then live as man and
wife without ever setting eyes on each other – their intimacy of words tested finally by life’s miraculous upheavals.
The twelve stories in this collection are about the unexpected. An American professor visits India with the purpose of committing suicide, and goes on a desert journey with the daughter of a snake charmer. A honeymooning Indian couple is caught up in the Tiananmen Square unrest. A Russian prostitute discovers her roots in the company of Calcutta revolutionaries. A holocaust victim stands tall among strangers
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