The Bloodstone Papers - Softcover

'Richly satisfying. Duncan manages to fuse racial and personal dislocation beautifully in this long, seductive narrative....A terrific yarn.'--The Independent on Sunday

"He is a major writer"--The Independent on Sunday

"An appallingly intelligent writer"--The Guardian

"Duncan's polished, merciless, and frequently hilarious prose supplies a trove of pleasures all its own."--Publishers Weekly

Superb...Perhaps this book will finally bring him the mainstream recognition he deserves.--Arena

[A] sprawling, ambitious work...it loops back and forth through history with remarkable lucidity... ultimately very moving.'--Alfred Hickling, The Guardian

"A vigorous roman à ghee, reminiscent at turns of Vikram Seth, Zadie Smith and Douglas Coupland."--Kirkus Reviews

His dreams of attaining Olympic glory shattered by a devastating betrayal, mixed-heritage Catholic boxer Ross Monroe is exiled from his home in 1940s India and finds himself consumed by a subsequent obsession that sets in motion events that impact the investigation of an English writer into his father's past. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.