Sunetra Gupta Knihy

A brilliant young Indian woman is caught between her own almost limitless capacity for experience - emotional, intellectual, sexual - and the desire of the men in her life to capture and define her. Set against the backdrops of Calcutta, New York and London, she struggles to conform.

This is the story of three generations, and of a house in Calcutta called Mandalay. Built by a British officer, it passes into the hands of the wealthy Roy family, but their fortunes fluctuate and, by the time Debendranath Roy returns to Mandalay, it has become a house full of ghosts.