In a crumbling Calcutta garage,a man strays blasphemously close to the secret oflife...Promothesh's discovery promises to bring him fame and riches:instead it unleashes a chain of disastrous events which begins with his arrival in London accompanied by his protective but ill-fated wife,Esha.Esha's death leaves him marooned and confused,his astonishing discovery slipping from his grasp.Into this morass ofambition and self-pity slips love,in the human forn of his biographer,Alexandra Vorobyova,and the devil himself,in the very human form of Yuri Sen.