A sensorial novel of childhood, exile, and memory, set between India and Australia.

Mother Land follows a young boy growing up in Bombay before being sent away, with much of the narrative shaped by what he cannot fully understand at the time—family fractures, political tension, the disorientation of displacement. The story unfolds with no adherence to traditional chronology, and instead becomes a series of impressions: interiors, weather, gestures, fragments of adult life glimpsed from below.

The book sits in that space between memoir and fiction, where memory is selective and unstable, and where “home” becomes something assembled after the fact. Not formally experimental, but attentive and controlled in a way that rewards slower reading.

Giramondo paperback, 2008 (first edition). Very good copy with light general wear; minor surface marks to covers, internally clean.