Stacy L. (stacyl67) reviewed on 7/31/2005 + 335 more book reviews

From the back of the book part of a New York Newsday review:
"Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture or religion to call his own...
The novel may not be 'about' India, but Irving's remarkable achievement - a pandemonium of servants and slubmen, dwarf clowns and transvestite whores, missionaries and move stars. This is a land of energetic colliding egos, of moderm media clashing with ancient cultures, of broken sexual boundaries"

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