A compelling insight into the cruel and complex world of India's recent internecine struggles

Michael Palin, Observer Books of the Year

Inventive, melancholy, and unflinchingly courageous

Siddhartha Deb

This is a beautifully written exploration of fathers and sons, illustrated à la W.G. Sebald with disquieting black-and-white photographs. Terrific

Kate Saunders, The Times

Singh effortlessly folds into the novel's structure elements of chemistry and literature, including, to great effect, insights into Primo Levi's groundbreaking autobiography, The Periodic Table ... a tender and beautifully modulated book that manages to combine individual mourning and guilt, memory and forgetting, with a sweeping and utterly gripping panorama of modern Indian history and politics

New Internationalist

This ambitious, intense second novel is ... bold and courageous ... [A] disturbing, heartfelt work

Irish Times

Bold, moving ... A compelling character study and a powerful meditation on historic forgetting

David Evans, Financial Times