Remarkably accomplished … unforgettable’ – AMIT CHAUDHURI
‘Finely-paced [and] richly observant’ – ADIL JUSSAWALLA
‘Deeply personal and profoundly historical’ – SAIKAT MAJUMDAR
‘Spectacular’ – KHUSHWANT SINGH
WINNER OF A BETTY TRASK AWARD 1995
First published in 1996 as In the Light of the Black Sun and long unavailable, Rohit Manchanda’s debut novel, A Speck of Coal Dust, is one of the finest coming-of-age narratives in Indian-English writing and a forgotten classic.