Copyright © 2011 by Rahul Bhattacharya
All rights reserved
Originally published in 2011 by Picador, an imprint of
Pan Macmillan Ltd., Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
eISBN 9781429929233
First eBook Edition : April 2011
First American edition, 2011
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following
song lyrics: calypso in section 6 of Part Three courtesy of Rohini Jones; “No Crime,
No Law,” by Alan Daniel (aka Lord Commander), courtesy of the
Copyright Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bhattacharya, Rahul, 1979 –
The sly company of people who care / Rahul Bhattacharya.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-374-26585-4 (alk. paper)
1. East Indians—Guyana—Fiction. 2. Race relations—Guyana—Fiction. 3. Identity (Psychology)—Fiction. 4. Betrayal—Fiction. 5. Guyana—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9499.4.B537S59 2011
823'.92—dc22
2010047596