An extraordinarily moving tale of a small-town schoolteacher.
The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First
Novel
Vasu Master has recently retired from his job in a local school. Away from the
familiar circumscribed world of school, principal and classroom, he begins to
relive incidents from the past and discover in his own halting but imaginative
way the nature of teaching, teacher and pupil. This process of self-discovery is
speeded up by the arrival of Mani, who cannotâ€"or will notâ€"speak. Vasu Master
tells the reticent child one fantastic story after the other as he faces up to
the biggest challenge