Robert, married to the shrewish Deborah, reminisces over a youth spent imitating the hero of Sartre's Nausea and he remembers with longing his first love, Eva. But when he catches his wife in flagrante with his erstwhile friend, he considers accepting Eva's invitation to join her in India.
- ISBN10 0349107807
- ISBN13 9780349107806
- Publish Date 2 May 1996 (first published 3 August 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Abacus
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 279
- Language English