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Out On A Limb In India

Simon Camel! HULLABALOO IN THE GUAVA ORCHARD by Kiran Desai Faber, £14.99, pp. 209 R eclined beneath a rickety electric ceiling fan, in his stifling family home in the northern......

A Doubting Pilgrim's Happy Progress

Gareth Howell-Jones THE RINGS OF SATURN by W. G. Sebald, translated from the German by Michael Hulse Harvill, £15.99, pp. 304 L ying in a hospital bed, 'in a state of almost......