Set in contemporary India, this work includes five tales which paint a picture of Bombay — its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries — while exploring questions of the human spirit.

A policeman, a criminal overlord, a Bollywood film star, beggars, cultists, spies, and terrorists — the lives of the privileged, the famous, the wretched, and the bloodthirsty interweave with cataclysmic consequences amid the chaos of modern-day Mumbai, in this soaring, uncompromising, and unforgettable epic masterwork of literary art.