"And yet, despite the pull of the outer world, these stories are all about the internal world of emotions - love, loss, obsession, and conflict - and about families and how they survive. They unfold to tell of moments when people catch glimpses of their real selves, their pasts, and have flashes of understanding about their lives. In "The Hill Station," an American-born scientist is drawn to Bombay, the homeland of her parents, where she breaks free from the confines of her well-ordered life. The title story tells of an aging surgeon who uses his grandfather's collection of butterflies to try and make sense of his past. In "Blue," a young man - still haunted by the tragic death of his father years earlier - traverses the Himalayan mountain that would have been his father's last climb. In "Acts of Memory, Wisdom of Man," the son of Indian immigrants relives the summer of 1968, and the events that determined his brother's fate."--BOOK JACKET.
Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 30
Author: John Murray
ISBN: 9780670913473
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 274