Neel Mukherjee / Shaheen Khan Sofia Engstrand Antonio Aakeel
'How ought one to live?' This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors a mysterious M. N. Opie writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her life to veer in an unexpected direction. Another author an economist describes how the gift of a cow to an impoverished family on the West Bengal-Bangladesh border sets them on a startling path to tragedy.Together these connected narratives raise the question: How free are we really to make our own choices? In a scathing compassionate quarrel with the world Neel Mukherjee confronts our fundamental assumptions about economics race appropriation and the tangled ethics of contemporary life.
