An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life from his 1935 birth in a small village in India to his death from Covid.

A young student sits on a bench in a park in San Miguel, Mexico. Bonita is away from her home in India to learn Spanish. She is alone, somewhere she has no connection to. It is bliss.

And then a woman approaches her. The woman claims to recognize Bonita because she is the spitting image of her mother, who made the same journey from India to Mexico as a young artist. No, says Bonita, my mother didn’t paint. She never travelled to Mexico. But this strange woman insists, and so Bonita follows ...

The fifth book in the spectacular 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' series, with a fresh bunch of customers in a special Tokyo cafe hoping to go back in time

From one of our most original contemporary voices, The Garden Against Time is an inventive and deeply felt exploration of the long dream of a shared Eden, a common paradise.