In the thick air of a coastal town inside the iron bars manufactured by the laws of men life explodes with tropical ferocity. Inferno purgatorio paradiso and limbo - always limbo - come together in a frantic soup of sadness and madness. More truths and revelations are laid bare than can be claimed by any courtroom or church.
In his new novel Tarun J Tejpal takes the darkest of human material and unearths in it the unstoppable surge of the human spirit. Writing in his inimitable tragicomic style he creates a spellbinding world of extraordinary characters and stories never encountered before.
The Line of Mercy is an epic - and utterly original - addition to the universal literature of crime and punishment.