Willkommen, Mr. Mackenzie

"The beginning of Neil Bissoondath's new novel marks the end of a seventy-year-old man's independent life. Six months later, living with his daughter and her family, the smell of his destruction still hanging in his pyjamas, he goes shopping for Christmas presents, buying his daughter a pen and writing paper. But the pen, lying dormant in its presentational box, propels him in a different directi...