Radiance of Ashes

Award-winning author Cyrus Mistry''s first novel. "Drifter, dropout, dreamer, Jingo believes he has rejected any form of class privilege in a ''hideously unequal society''. Making a meagreiving as a part-time door-to-door market researcher, he jots down notes on characters and insights for a novel. Is he serious about his self-professed vocation? Or just tooaid-back, just too fond of getting high?". "As the story moves effortlessly from a middle-class Parsi housing colony to a far-flung slum on the outskirts of the city, memories of a bitterove affair continue to haunt Jingo but it''s only when his other romance-with the city-erupts in a nightmare of horror that he realizes he''d better wake up before it''s tooate." "The Radiance of Ashesis a beautifully described tale of desire, duty and dreams. It is also a story about families, about the truths we hold and theies we tell, about the fires that burn in each of us - what iseft once the flames have died away." Key Features: This is award-winning author Cyrus Mistry''s first novel. Cyrus Mistry is the author of Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer which won the DSC Prize for South Asianiterature 2014, one of the subcontinent''s most prestigiousiterary prizes."

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