From the bestselling author of The Parcel and Song of Kahunsha, here's a sweet yet tart collection of seven gem-like stories, capped off by an unforgettable short memoir about living between Canada and India for 20 years. Brilliantly concise, wryly funny, wonderfully accessible and affecting, this is Anosh Irani at his best. Twenty years ago, to the mystification and shock of his family and friends, the young Anosh Irani took off for a place he'd only heard about in books: Vancouver, Canada. His idea was both grand and vague: he would invent himself as a writer in this far-off land. Miraculously, Irani did just that, publishing award-winning novels and plays set in his hometown of Bombay--but not without a great price, and not without radically changing his worldview. With these seven stunning stories and one brief but powerful memoir, Irani for the first time explores the experience of living between worlds--India and Canada. As Irani says: "One is the place of my birth, and the other a place I choose to live in. I'm interested in how these completely different worlds speak to each other, and what happens when people from one world move to the other, and are trapped there. What does the journey give to people? What does it take away, tear apart? To my surprise, the form of the story allowed me to ask these questions." In this modern-day treasury, we meet: a swimming instructor determined to reenact John Cheever's iconic short story "The Swimmer" in the pools of Mumbai; a famous chef who, overcome by a devastating childhood memory, melts down during an appearance on a New York talk show; a gangster's wife who is convinced she's found the reincarnation of a lost loved one in a penguin from the Mumbai zoo; an illegal immigrant in North Vancouver who is drawn into a pick-up cricket game that may decide his fate. These are just some of the extraordinary characters that animate this wildly imaginative collection of tales about people caught between two worlds. The collection culminates in a gorgeous and emotionally raw denouement: a story exploring the author's own experience of twenty years in Canada as an immigrant, ingeniously blurring the line between fiction and fact. Delectable yet not without bitters and spice, The Treasury of Sweetness confirms Anosh Irani as a unique, inventive, vitally important voice in contemporary fiction.