The Irrelevance of Space and Other Stories

These stories delineate how mere movement from one country to another, one community to another, can create gut-wrenching situations, if only to underscore the terrifying plight of refugees lost at sea (as we are constant witnesses to in today's world – as portrayed in one of the stories, ‘Guantanamo.’ 'The Irrelevance of Space,' 'The Katowice Eviction,' 'Remembrance,' 'Fal-e-Hafez,' 'Guantanamo,' and 'The Cyberdeath Files' - stories that range across many countries - are tales of dislocation, geographical and cultural. They invite us to move beyond our own borders and discover beauty, riches, and experiences that lie within our reach, if only we are able to shake off our preconceptions, fears and prejudices. The reward is a gift of understanding. In 'The Cyberdeath Files,' a suspenseful mystery, Laloo Singh, an Indian computer engineer, meets Amanda, a Chinese-American beauty, and together they work to solve a string of mysterious deaths. The book's a thriller, but also an exploration of cross-cultural relationships. Says Amanda to Laloo, after they fall in love: "We represent a third of the world's population. Just imagine what a marvellous team we would make."