A Little Distillery in Nowgong

This fantastic historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India from the late 1800s to present day. It follows the family from the intricacies of village life in the jungles of central India to the complications of urban life in turbulent pre- and post-independence struggles to contemporary diasporic realities in the United Kingdom and North America.
By the author of Once Upon an Elephant, this novel humanizes the politics of ethnicity, culture, and colonial rule.