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The eight stories included in Uneven Octagon cover three continents: North America, Europe, and Asia. Excepting one, they all deal with expatriates from South Asia interacting with each other and with white and black British and Americans in varied settings and situations. The exception, "Angst and Ennui", is a fictionalized account of a young man's travails in the suffocating atmosphere of occupied Dhaka in 1971 and attempts to capture, in a microcosm, ...