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Ritwik Ghosh, 22 and recently orphaned, finds a chance to start his life all over again when arrives in England to study. But to do that he must relive his entire past, unravel a thread of narrative he can only now bring himself to read. Above all, he has to make sense of his relationship with his mother- scarred, abusive. Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. As he loses himself in London and takes up residence with the elderly Anne Cameron, he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of aliens. Meanwhile, the story that Ritwik writes to stave off his loneliness, the story of another alien in a foreign country. . . a miss Gilby, who teaches English, music and Western manners to Bimala, wife of educated Zamindar, Nikhliesh, begins to find ghostly echoes in his life with Anne Cameron. Which one is he making up?