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A daring novel about present-day Bombay and the individual lives that spark the city’s consciousness.Fast-paced and innovative, No God in Sight captures the seething multiplicity of Bombay through first-person accounts of an abortionist, a convert, a pregnant refugee, a gangster in hiding, a butcher, and an apathetic CEO, among others. As the reader is hurtled from monologue to short story to anecdote, disparate lives collide in tantalizing ways. A family flees religious persecution in their village to take refuge in an urban slum; women walk the tightrope of free will and dormant violence; a father and son grant each other the relief of estrangement; and young men and women struggle to comprehend the consequences of sexual attraction. At the heart of the action is the city itself: a teeming, breathing, suffering Bombay that demands subservience and total surrender before it will sanction survival. Insightful, ironic, and scathingly honest, No God in Sight is a brilliant debut by a talented young writer.
Acquisto del libro
No God In Sight, Altaf Tyrewala
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2006
- Rilegatura
- (Copertina rigida),
- Condizioni del libro
- In buone condizioni
- Prezzo
- 9,99 €
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- Titolo
- No God In Sight
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Altaf Tyrewala
- Editore
- MacAdam/Cage
- Pubblicato
- 2006
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 200
- ISBN10
- 1596921943
- ISBN13
- 9781596921948
- Serie
- Categoria
- Tag
- Asia, Indie, Letteratura indiana
- Descrizione
- A daring novel about present-day Bombay and the individual lives that spark the city’s consciousness.Fast-paced and innovative, No God in Sight captures the seething multiplicity of Bombay through first-person accounts of an abortionist, a convert, a pregnant refugee, a gangster in hiding, a butcher, and an apathetic CEO, among others. As the reader is hurtled from monologue to short story to anecdote, disparate lives collide in tantalizing ways. A family flees religious persecution in their village to take refuge in an urban slum; women walk the tightrope of free will and dormant violence; a father and son grant each other the relief of estrangement; and young men and women struggle to comprehend the consequences of sexual attraction. At the heart of the action is the city itself: a teeming, breathing, suffering Bombay that demands subservience and total surrender before it will sanction survival. Insightful, ironic, and scathingly honest, No God in Sight is a brilliant debut by a talented young writer.