A Son of the Circus
Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay, educated in Vienna, and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture, or religion to call his own. . . Irving's imagined India, which Daruwalla visits periodically . . . [is] a land of energetic colliding egos, of modern media...
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Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay, educated in Vienna, and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture, or religion to call his own. . . Irving's imagined India, which Daruwalla visits periodically . . . [is] a land of energetic colliding egos, of modern media clashing with ancient cultures, of broken sexual boundaries.-- New York Newsday.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307423931 (030742393X)
Publish date: September 23rd 2009
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 672
Edition language: English
I loved the characters in this book, as I often do with John Irving's characters, and the story was definitely creative and kept my interest. I do forget about Irving's penchant for graphic descriptions that are sometimes hard to read. He does like to dig in to those subjects which make his books o...
I am a big fan of Irving, but I found this one disappointing.
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