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When a young Indian journalist quits his job to take a year off in Guyana, he discovers a country of epic indolence, lush rainforests and an array of characters . Among the motley crowd of seasoned rogues, Samaritans and ideologues, people trying to escape or accept their colonial legacies, he falls for Jan, a girl who transports him to a new place-within himself and in the world. Acute and lyrical, this brilliant first novel is one of the finest literary achievements to come out of the subcontinent in the last decade.
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: May/2012
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Imprint: India Penguin
Published: May/2012
ISBN: 9788184756463
Length : Pages
When a young Indian journalist quits his job to take a year off in Guyana, he discovers a country of epic indolence, lush rainforests and an array of characters . Among the motley crowd of seasoned rogues, Samaritans and ideologues, people trying to escape or accept their colonial legacies, he falls for Jan, a girl who transports him to a new place-within himself and in the world. Acute and lyrical, this brilliant first novel is one of the finest literary achievements to come out of the subcontinent in the last decade.
Rahul Bhattacharya was born in Bombay in 1979, and was part of a St. Xavier’s College team that comfortably failed to carry forward the legacy of Sunil Gavaskar and Ashok Mankad. He covered this tour for the Guardian and Wisden. Pundits from Pakistan won the 2005 Crossword Popular Book Award and was voted fourth-best cricket book of all time by the Wisden Cricketer, London, in 2010. His first novel, The Sly Company of People Who Care, won the Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. He lives in Delhi.