"A man, a Westerner, arrives in Bombay in search of his missing friend, the mysterious Xavier. He has little information to go on - indeed he can scarcely remember what Xavier looks like. A succession of tantalisingly insubstantial clues lead him from Bombay to Madras, from Madras to Goa, in a series of extraordinary encounters."--cover
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Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1988
