A Speck Of Coal Dust

Description

Remarkably accomplished unforgettable AMIT CHAUDHURI

Finely-paced and]richly observant ADIL JUSSAWALLA

Deeply personal and profoundly historical’ SAIKAT MAJUMDAR

Spectacular KHUSHWANT SINGH

WINNER OF A BETTY TRASK AWARD 1995

First published in 1996 as In the Light of the Black Sun and long unavailable, Rohit Manchanda’s debut novel, A Speck of Coal Dust, is one of the finest coming-of-age narratives in Indian-English writing and a forgotten classic.

Set in the coal-mining regions of eastern India, this exquisitely crafted work follows Vipul, the eleven-