A great collection of modern mystery tales with a difference. Many are concerned with identity in a foreign land and the characters are searching for a truth that is only realized in personal relationships.
Ambalavaner Sivanandan is director of the Institute of Race Relations and editor of Race & Class. His fiction includes When Memory Dies, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and winner of the Sagittarius Prize, and Where the Dance Is, both published by Arcadia Books.
A lot of short stories about corny Marxist South Asian men and love of white women's sexuality and sensuality. Gotta say, I am disappointed since I expected a lot more after reading his academic work.