Eric, a young North American, finds himself on a curious quest for his own family in a 'ghost' mining town in Mexico, now barely inhabited, where almost a hundred years earlier young Cornish miners, like his own grandfather, worked the mines. Until Pancho Villa and revolution came to Mexico.
Reviews
"She is one of the best English language novelists of modern times." --"Daily Telegraph" "Desai has a gift of opening up a closed world and making it clearly visible." --"Sunday Times"
