Anosh Irani

A novel';The only statement of revolt the poor could make was to put an end to their own misery. It happened all the timemen lay themselves on train tracks, hanged themselves from trees, consumed rat poison, and women set their kerosene-soaked bodies alight in front of their husbands. These were blazing ends to insignificant journeys. But in...

Prepare to enter a world where the norms of human behavior even the rules governing time and gravity are set on their heads. This dark and wry fable begins with the narrator waking up and discovering he is missing an arm. He has no idea how he lost it or how to find it but as he searches the chaotic, often surreal streets of Bombay, he meets an...

From one of Canadas brightest new literary stars a startling and beautiful novel about abandonment, poverty, and violence, as well as loyalty, love, and hope, as seen through the eyes of a young homeless boy. It is 1993 and Bombay is on the verge of being torn apart by racial violence. Ten-year-old Chamdi has rarely ventured outside his...