In this stunning novel prize-winning author Neel Mukherjee wrests open the central defining events of our century: displacement and migration. Five characters in very different circumstances - from a domestic cook in Mumbai to a vagrant and his dancing bear to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city - find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another this