Abir Mukherjee

So I didn't do that.

What I did do was I read a few books, and one in particular, a book called Opium Fiend by an American author called Stephen Wright.

That's an amazing book.

It's a memoir of how he became an opium addict.

He started off

collecting opium paraphernalia so the pipes and all of the stuff that went around opium smoking and then he started dabbling with it and then over a period of time he became hooked.

The book sort of chronicles his descent into opium addiction and then how he recovers from it and that to me was a wonderful text because it was so heartfelt and that to me was very very important when I came

to writing about Sam's experience.

That is a wonderful question.

There are several books that I will read more than once, very few, but there are some that I will read every few years.

The first of those has to be 1984.

by George Orwell.

I first read that when I was 10 years old, and I've read it every few years since.

The next one I'll mention is a book called The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.

This is a book that my wife got me to read.

We weren't married then.

She was just my girlfriend then, and I think reading this book changed my life.

And The Namesake is the story of a Bengali family from Calcutta called the Gangulis.

and their story of immigration from Calcutta to America.

It tells of these two individuals, Ashok and Ashima, how they move, you know, as a married couple, a young married couple from Calcutta and settle in America.