The tale of Gustad Noble, an everyday guy, and his family is told in the novel Such a Long Trip, which is set in Bombay against the backdrop of the Indian subcontinental war and the creation of Bangladesh. One of the most amazing authors to have recently come out of the Indian literary heritage, Such a Long Trip is a magnificent debut novel. It received the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Award and was named to the 1991 Booker Prize shortlist.