ABOUT
THE BOOK

Jayojit, a semi-successful writer, now divorced, has finally retrieved his son Bonny for his summer holidays. They are leaving their home in the American Midwest and going back to Calcutta, to his grandparents, the Admiral and his wife. A New World watches Jayojit and his son as they share the dark, close flat with his parents while the city outside is blanketed in fierce simmer heat. We see the details of married lives, of an elderly couple entrenched in the unquestioning roles of their past and of a modern marriage now sharply severed in two.