"The book looks at Vikram Seth's work in the context of multiple locations and multiple affiliations. Poet, novelist, travelogue writer, seth operates within a cosmopolitan mode and belongs to the new category of those cross-cultural writers who outgrow their roots. Mala Pandurang provides a perceptive analysis of Seth's writing matching his mobility from one genre to another, and one culture to another, by an equal degree of mobility in critical approaches and presents a new understanding of Seth's oeuvre."