• ISBN13: 9789386906526
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Creative Writing, FictionEnglish Literature
• Publisher: Niyogi Books
• Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook
• Publication Date: September 16, 2018
• Pages: 376
• Original Price: 495.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

A self-obsessed Calcutta detective who goes by his last name `Kar’, an enigmatic internet cafe hostess in Seoul, and a hotshot geneticist labouring away on a top-secret corporate project. These are just a few pieces in the puzzle that need to be put together to explain a world sucked into the whirlpool of the `butterfly effect’.In the decaying capital city of a near-future Darkland, which covers large swathes of Asia, Captain Old – an off-duty policeman – receives news that might help to unravel the roots of a scourge that has ravaged the continent. As stories coalesce into stories – welding past, present and future together – will a macabre death in a small English town or the disappearance of Indian tourists in Korea, help to blow away the dusts of time? From utopian communities of Asia to the prison camps of Pyongyang and from the gene labs of Europe to the violent streets of Darkland – riven by civil war, infested by genetically engineered fighters – this time-travelling novel crosses continents, weaving mystery, adventure and romance, gradually fixing its gaze on the sway of the unpredictable over our lives.

Rajat Chaudhuri is the author of three books, Hotel Calcutta, Amber Dusk and a collection of stories in Bengali titled Calculus. He has won a Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellowship, UK, a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, Scotland, a Korean Arts Council-InKo Residency in South Korea, and a Sangam House residency, for his writing. His reviews and other writing have appeared in Outlook magazine, American Book Review, Asian Review of Books, Scroll, Indian Literature, The Telegraph, The Statesman, Eclectica and elsewhere.Before turning to writing full-time, Chaudhuri has been a climate change advocate at the United Nations (New York) and a contributor to the United Nations Human Development Report. Trained in Economics, he has worked for international rights advocacy groups and for a Japanese consular mission in his home town, Calcutta. He is the editor of The Best Asian Speculative Fiction, a book of short stories by Asian writers.