Book description
It s the day before Mike Frame s fiftieth birthday and his quiet
provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn t
matter, because it s not his life in the first place. He has a past
that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about,
lived under another name amidst the turbulence of the revolutionary
armed struggle of the 1970s.
Now Mike is seeing ghosts a dead ex-lover and an old friend who
wants to reminisce. Mike can no longer ignore the contradiction
between who he is and who he once was. Which side was he on back then?
And which side is he on now?
Hari Kunzru is the author of
The Impressionist
,
Transmission
and the short story collection
Noise
, and was named one of Granta s Best of Young British Novelists, 2003
.
He is a contributing editor of
Mute
magazine and sits on the executive council of English PEN. He lives in
East London. You can read more about him at: www. harikunzru. com
