The Elsewhereans

Mercurial witty luminous Devika Rege Thayil''s masterpiece William Dalrymple Jeet Thayil''s The Elsewhereans is a genre-defying novel that melds fiction travelogue memoir a ghost story a family saga photographs and much else into a tale that unfolds across continents and decades. From the backwaters of Kerala to the streets of Bombay Hong Kong Paris and beyond Thayil maps the restless lives of those shaped by separationboth the ones who leave and the ones left behind. A hypnotic meditation on migration loss and the fragile threads of identity from one of the most brilliant voices in contemporary literature The Elsewhereans is a novel of retrieval and reinvention an elegy for vanished worlds and a reckoning with the histories we inherit.