For me the best feature of the book is the voice in which it is written-not that of the several characters who present the narrative in the first person, but the author's own voice. It is familiar. Though the author is Pakistani, his voice sounds like that of any Indian man belonging to his social class. It is confident, ironic and worldly. It has known the pleasures and freedoms of living in the West as also the disillusionments. It could belong to many people I know; so it is to me an attractive voice. Less attractive, however, are the voices of the actual characters through whom the author speaks.