This is an utterly brilliant novel that almost has no business being this good. On the surface it looks to be a sweeping historical epic in the vein of James Michener or MM Kaye, and to some small degree it is. It’s a novel of the closing days of the British Raj, written by a former colonial official. So on the one hand, it’s potentially a kind of wistful nostalgic novel of a lost past. But luckily it’s way more Orwell and Graham Greene than […]