Amitava Kumar is a novelist, poet, journalist, and Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of Husband of a Fanatic, a New York Times “Editors’ Choice”; Bombay-London-New York, a New Statesman (UK) “Book of the Year”; and Passport Photos. He is the editor of several books, including Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate, The Humour and the Pity: Essays on V. S. Naipaul, and World Bank Literature. He is also an editor of the online journal Politics and Culture and the screenwriter and narrator of the prize-winning documentary film Pure Chutney. Kumar’s writing has appeared in the Nation, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, American Prospect, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Hindu, and other publications in North America and India.
Acknowledgments ix
I. The Car with the Red Light 1
II. Ulan Bator at Night 33
III. The Lady with the Dog 61
IV. Kiss of the Spider Woman 99
V. News of a Kidnapping 123
VI. Nobody Does the Right Thing 153
VII. The Glass Menagerie 175
