India's experience of British colonialism. The true financial, social and ecological cost of British rule and the contrasting experiences of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh following independence.
'The Ur-novel at the heart of American literature - a towering achievement' Junot Diaz 'Henry Roth has only two peers in American-English Jewish fiction, Nathanael West and Philip Roth' Harold Bloom The fourth novel in the internationally-acclaimed epic telling of immigrant life in early-twentieth century New York, MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM