Hardcover. NY, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Moni falls in love with her brother's English classmate, and leaves Calcutta to start a new life with him in London, where she faces prejudice, sexism, and betrayal. Of the fragile love between the assured Englishman, Anthony, and the bright but sheltered young Bengali woman, Gupta weaves a provocative and utterly empathetic tale of awakening and hard discovery, steeped in cultural protocol and taboo, in Jane Austen and the verse of Tagore. Author's first novel. Clean copy.