The Fine Print and other Yarns is a collection of nine stories some of which may well be classified as novella as they run into thirty to fifty pages. The first four are set in Paris of nineteen eighties and the next three in Paris of nineties. The last two are set in India around the turn of the last century. The collection is like a kaleidoscope, each turn of which presents an eminently interesting and unforgettable character. Among them are: * Buddy, a young lecturer in Delhi University in 1980s having a strange fascination for the bohemian life of painters in Paris but whose exposure to...