The stories in this collection are set in India and in the United States but the characters are very much Indian. Like Prem in the title story who is unable to forget the paddy-field of his native Kerala even when he’s walking through the snow covered streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Like Shyam, in Spiders on the Wall, who cannot forget the surreal world of O. V. Vijayan’s cholera-infested streets of Khazak even when he’s watching Andre Agassi play in ...
