Hari Kunzru
Pran Nath’s startling whiteness is regarded as a sign of nobility, but when his true parentage is revealed, he is ejected from his father’s house and begins a haphazard journey through the bizarre dark side of the British Empire. Sold to a pair of eunuchs, he is taken to a backwater state in the Punjab and becomes the bait in the dynastic intrigues of a dissolute Indian court. Escaping to Bombay, he reinvents himself as Pretty Bobby, prince of the red-light ...