It's the 1960's, and, curious about the world beyond his Gujarati village, Karsan sends an application to Harvard and is accepted. Revelling in his studies and America, he finds happiness as a professor and family man, but there is no escaping his family obligation to be guardian of the Indian shrine of Nur Fazal. Some descriptions of sex.

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf ... in 2007"--T.p. verso.