The cripple and his talismans /
Irani, Anosh, 1974-
The cripple and his talismans / Anosh Irani. - 1st ed. - New Delhi : Fourth Estate, 2004. - 231 p. ; 21 cm.
"Prepare to enter a world where the norms of human behavior and morality - even the rules governing time and gravity - are turned upside down. Set in the teeming city of contemporary Bombay, this comic tale begins with a young man in search of his missing arm. Each person he meets offers him a clue: a woman who sells rainbows; a coffin maker who builds tiny caskets; a giant who lives underwater - all lead him to Baba Rakhu, the master of the underworld and the only one who can reveal the meaning of his predicament." "Anosh Irani has crafted a story that is as much about loss as it is about the presence of faith in a world that can be as cruel as it can be forgiving."--BOOK JACKET.
9789350296035 (hbk.) Rs499.00
2004062388
Suffering--Fiction.
Amputees--Fiction.
Mumbai (India)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
813.6 IRA / 004560
The cripple and his talismans / Anosh Irani. - 1st ed. - New Delhi : Fourth Estate, 2004. - 231 p. ; 21 cm.
"Prepare to enter a world where the norms of human behavior and morality - even the rules governing time and gravity - are turned upside down. Set in the teeming city of contemporary Bombay, this comic tale begins with a young man in search of his missing arm. Each person he meets offers him a clue: a woman who sells rainbows; a coffin maker who builds tiny caskets; a giant who lives underwater - all lead him to Baba Rakhu, the master of the underworld and the only one who can reveal the meaning of his predicament." "Anosh Irani has crafted a story that is as much about loss as it is about the presence of faith in a world that can be as cruel as it can be forgiving."--BOOK JACKET.
9789350296035 (hbk.) Rs499.00
2004062388
Suffering--Fiction.
Amputees--Fiction.
Mumbai (India)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
813.6 IRA / 004560