From the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author comes a dazzling novel of family, love and love's disappointments—a poignant mother-daughter story and a meditation on aging parents.Anna's aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children's pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she turns her focus to her hospital window, through which she escapes into visions of horror and delight. When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee di