India, May 3 -- This novel tells the story, partly through the events of one weekend, partly through the skilful use of memory and flashbacks, of a marriage between an Indian girl and an Englishman. Caught in the clash of two cultures, their love becomes mired in the pain of infidelity and misunderstanding. When it was first published in 1992, Kirkus Reviews called the novel "a stunning, luminous debut set in Calcutta and London by a young, true heir to Virginia Woolf". The review went on to say that "the stream-of-consciousness narrative weaves together memories and images, providing not just the history of a fragile love but of a woman's psychology and soul..." And added: "In her sinuous sentences past and present, London and Calcutta, reality and shadow and the painful phrases of Tagore songs melt into one another in long continuous streams." The introduction to this edition published under Westland's Literary Activism series edited by Amit Chaudhuri states that the book "continues to surprise"....