With an inimitable mix of earthy humour and searing tragedy, bestselling author Anosh Irani gives us his most ambitious novel yet.

Zairos is a dissolute young landowner's son living in the town of Dahanu, just outside Bombay, when his life of careless luxury is brought up short by a mysterious death: the sudden suicide of Ganpat, a tribal worker on his family's estate. Soon Zairos has fallen in love with Ganpat's daughter Kusum, and finds himself defying taboos with their relationship. At the same time his grandfather, Shapur, reveals to him the story of their family and of the land that Zairos stands to inherit. Violence and hatred echo through history, and Zairos learns the terrible truth his grandfather has spent a lifetime hiding.

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"Simply told and nicely paced. Readers who have never set foot in India will get a feel for the country."
— Vancouver Sun

"Richly detailed. . . . With characters as rooted in the earth as the trees of the orchard, Dahanu Road springs to life."
— Winnipeg Free Press

"Fact or fiction, [Irani] has given us a world both different and disturbingly familiar. . . . An immigration saga, an account of cultural battles and a cautionary tale of unintended consequences that will stretch into the 21st century. . . . Proof positive that there's another superior talent from Southeast Asia living here. In writing about distant worlds he shows us the exotic Other, while at the same time enacting on foreign stages the moral challenges we all face."
— National Post

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"I really enjoyed this book. I have never read a book about India and was very interested in the thinking along the lines of the caste system. I thought the author did an amazing job of bringing us along on his journey through his story."
— Doreen M, Manitoba

"An epic and engrossing novel. A story that will stay with you long after you have finished the novel."
— Erin M, Ontario

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ANOSH IRANI is the author of the acclaimed novels The Song of Kahunsha, a finalist for Canada Reads and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2007, and The Cripple and His Talismans. His play Bombay Black won four Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2006 including for Outstanding New Play, and he was nominated for the 2007 Governor General's Award for The Bombay Plays: The Matka King and Bombay Black.

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