An enthralling virtuoso debut that eloquently captures the loves and losses of a dying man’All the elements of great storytelling are here, the mystic transports of Ben Okri with the intimate charm of Arundhati Roy … enchanting’ Sunday Tribune’Beautifully captures with great tenderness and depth the eternal war between duty and desire. This is a love letter to Bombay and its people’ Sunday Express Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold – the warring housewives on the first floor, the lovesick teenagers on the second, and the widower, alone and quietly grieving at the top of the building.In a fevered state Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive Padmini and comedy becomes tragedy as his life draws to a close.