Formats
Paperback/English
USD 28.10
Description
From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji comes a brilliant new novel that bends history, myth and fantasy to explore how empires are built, and how they fall. When a light appears in the sky above Delhi, the world below begins to change . . . It's the fading years of the fourteenth-century Delhi Sultanate, and famine, court intrigues, an ailing, irascible Sultan, local rebellions and fear of invading Mongol armies keep the regime on edge. Under these conditions, an enigmatic, sphere-like