The Apparition

From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji comes a brilliant new novel that bends history, myth and fantasy to cast an eye on how empires are built, and how they collapse.

When a light appears in the sky above a dying empire, the world below begins to change . . .

It's the fading years of the 13th-century Delhi Sultanate, and famine, court intrigue and fears of invading Mongol armies have plunged Delhi into turmoil. As the empire lies on the brink of collapse, a strange, luminous prese...