Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick’s life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning The English Patient.
Inspired in part by a real woman who made history by becoming India’s first female lawyer, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp and promising new sleuth, Perveen Mistry.
After years of arduous training, Katya is assigned to the 588th Night Bomber Regiment–one of the only Soviet air units composed entirely of women. But when the smoke of war clears, nothing will ever be the same…and one of Russia’s most decorated military heroines will face the most agonizing choice of all.
