You sense that the first half of this novel is about the world as seen from above a well-appointed dinner table. In one chapter, a day nurse in Delhi is accused by a wealthy man of a small act of thievery. In the following chapter, we meet her husband, a gardener to a wealthy woman in Qatar, who has secrets of his own. About the wealthy woman, we read: “Mrs. The man is from a country so troubled that commercial flights cannot pass over it.

Source: International New York Times July 16, 2019 09:56 UTC