First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 426, [2]. Quarter-bound pumpkin orange cloth over butter-yellow paper boards, lettered in black to spine with author's initials blind-stamped to front. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter (priced $24.95 to front flap).
Stated First Edition, with a full number sequence on the copyright page beginning with "2", denoting a Random House first printing.
Signed by author to title page.
Author's debut novel. Winner of the Mail on Sunday/ John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Named by Granta as one of twenty "Best of Young British Novelists" in 2003. A series of nine, globe-spanning, ingeniously linked narratives. "[A] dazzling piece of work." –The Washington Post