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S.A.  \nPenguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd)  \nPenguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsbeel Park, New Delhi-110 017, India  \nPenguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd)  \nPenguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa  \nPenguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in Canada by Penguin Group (Canada), 200 6  \nSimultaneously published in the United States by Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint o f Grove Atlantic, Inc., 841 Broadway, New York, NY 1000 3  \n2345678910  \nCopyright © Kiran Desai, 2006  \n\"The Boast of Quietness,\" translated by Stephen Kessler, copyright © 1999 by Maria Kodama: translation © 1999 by Stephen Kessler, from SELECTED POEMS by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Alexander Coleman. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.  \nAll rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication maybe reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.  \nPublisher's note: This book is a work offiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nManufactured in the U. S.A.  \nISBN 0-14-305568-2  \nLibrary and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication data available upon request.  \nAmerican Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data available. Visit the Penguin Group (Canada) website [at](at www.penguin.ca)[ ](at www.penguin.ca)[www.penguin.ca](at www.penguin.ca)  \nTo my mother with so much love Boast of Quietness  \nWritings oflight assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors. The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.  \nSure of my life and my death, I observe the ambitious and would like to understand them.  \nTheir day is greedy as a lariat in the air.  \nTheir night is a rest from the rage within steel, quick to attack.  \nThey speak of humanity.  \nMy humanity is in feeling we are all voices ofthe same poverty.  \nThey speak of homeland.  \nMy homeland is the rhythm of a guitar, a few portraits, an old sword, the willow grove's visible prayer as evening falls.  \nTime is living me.  \nMore silent than my shadow, I pass through the loftily covetous multitude. They are indispensable, singular, worthy of tomorrow.  \nMy name is someone and anyone.  \nI walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.  \n—Jorge Luis Borges The Inheritance of Loss  \nOne  \nAll day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadowsand depths.  \nBriefly visible above the vapor, Kanchenjunga was a far peak whittled out of ice, gathering the last of the light, a plume of snow blown high by the storms at its summit.  \nSai, sitting on the veranda, was reading an article about giant squid in an old National Geographic. 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