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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.
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No God In Sight, Altaf Tyrewala
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2006
- Reliure
- (rigide),
- État du livre
- Bon
- Prix
- 9,99 €
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- Titre
- No God In Sight
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Altaf Tyrewala
- Éditeur
- MacAdam/Cage
- Publié
- 2006
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN10
- 1596921943
- ISBN13
- 9781596921948
- Séries
- Catégories
- Mots clés
- Asie, Inde, Littérature indienne
- Description
- 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.