{"product_id":"annual-leave-abir-m-9798189869006","title":"Annual Leave","description":"In August, Mumbai loses people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe trains stop. The roads go under. Half the city works from home and the other half cannot get in, and for four weeks nobody is where they said they would be. It is the one month of the year when a person can vanish and the weather will explain it for you. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspector Kalpana Sathe is not the best detective in the building. She is the one who did not take leave. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen she emails a missing man, he answers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI am currently out of office. I will respond on my return, 30 August. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe is not the only one. Across the city, eleven people have switched on the same reply-from their own accounts, days before walking out of their own lives. Eleven people with nothing in common. A radiographer. A ticket examiner. A school attendance clerk. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNothing in common, except that every one of them signs the forms that prove other people exist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey are all due back on the thirtieth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNone of them is coming. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKal has twenty-nine days to find out what they agreed to, who is still answering their mail, and why her own out-of-office has been switched on since the first of the month. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes sixteen facsimile documents from the case file. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA work of fiction. All characters, cases, records and documents in this book are invented. The documents reproduced within it were created for the novel and do not reproduce any actual form or record. Nothing in this book describes or implies any actual conduct by any real institution or person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abir M\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798189869006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Abir M","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50666030891263,"sku":"9798189869006","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/annual-leave-abir-m-9798189869006","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}