Across the Mystic Shore
Macmillan New Writing Series

By Suroopa Mukherjee
August 2006
Macmillan
ISBN: 0230000509
312 pages, 5 1/4 x 8"
$29.95 Hardcover


DJ Taylor, The Guardian, 8 April, 2006
"A delicate account of an Indian family life thrown into confusion by the arrival of a strange, solitary child."

Tim Teeman, The London Times, 8 April, 2006
"Has . . . magic and depth."

The arrival of a young boy in an upper-middle-class Bengali household triggers a gripping story of love, desire and renunciation among four women forced to confront their past decisions to understand the present.


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