New York & Boston: Little Brown, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, following his award winning debut novel 'Red Earth and Pouring Rain.' This is a collection of five interlocking short stories, each told by the same elusive narrator, a civil servant who tell these stories - which paint a vivid picture of Bombay, its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - to those around him in a smoky Bombay bar. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-316133078.