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In Delhi, in the 1970s, the sons and daughters of S.P. Chopra, one of India's political architects, live together in a sprawling complex-A-19 Modern Colony-vying for influence in a family shaped by the great man's legacy. By the end of the decade, the descendants are scrambling to define their...

“An extraordinary gift to its lucky readers: an enormously full and brilliantly structured novel whose characters come to feel as familiar—and as bottomlessly mysterious—as one's own family.” —Karen Russell, author of National Book Award finalist The Antidote “A testament to...

Mr Ahuja, Delhi’s Minister of Urban Development, has too much on his hands: 13 children and another on the way. All at sea among his sprawling, noisy brood he reaches out to Arjun, his eldest, and seemingly wisest, son. But Arjun has his own problems: how to tell the girl on the school bus that he's crazy about her? This uproarious debut follows father and son as they blunder their way over and under the flyovers of the megalopolis in a moving - and fast-moving - comic portrait of modern family life.

National Book Award Finalist Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Winner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize One of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best...