Five characters, in very different circumstances - from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city - find out the meanings of dislocation, and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India this novel delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life. The new novel from the Man Booker Shortlisted author of "The Lives of Others".