'This novel has the same charm as John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. Intensely nostalgic and engrossing.' - Hansda Sowendra Shekhar
Denis McGowan left India for Hong Kong to make his fortune.As the years passed and his printing press prospered, he losttouch with home. But as news of Hong Kong's impendinghandover by Britain to China trickles in, McGowan's stablelife seems suddenly uncertain. And it stirs up his memory,filling him with nostalgic ache for his village in India. That's when young Robin McGowandecides to travel to the village his father speaks of sooften: McCluskieganj, an Anglo-Indian agricultural havenfounded in the 1940s in what is now Jharkhand. Only, when he gets there, he finds that the villageis nothing like the idyllic home of his father's childhood.Overrun by outlaws, riddled with politics and controlled by landmafia, this is not the place where the nature-loving tribalshad once peacefully co-existed with the Anglo-Indians whochose India over Britain in 1947. This is a true-to-life portrait of an extraordinary village.Autorentext
Vikas Kumar Jha (b. 1961) is a journalist by professionand has worked for magazines like Maya and Outlook, andis currently devoted to full-time writing. His first novel wastitled Bhog, and his collection of Hindi poems, Is BaarishMein. He has also written two critically acclaimed plays inMaithili, namely, Jamputra and Sonmachhariya, and a nonfiction narrative on the criminalization of politics in Bihar.McCluskieganj received the Katha UK Award in the House ofCommons in 2011. Mahasweta Ghosh was Vikas Kumar Jha's teacherof English in his college days. She has recently retired asUniversity Professor and Head of the Department of English,Patna College, Patna University. This is her first work oftranslation.