Title : A Child of the Ball - John Irving - book
That morning in Bombay, in the impeccable grounds of the Duckworth Club, why are the vultures hovering over the ninth green? A question posed by Farrokh Daruwalla, an orthopedic surgeon by trade and a part-time wrongdoer, far from suspecting that the crime of golf will drag him into a maelstrom of discoveries about the world and himself... For now, he is waiting for a mysterious actor, a fake Indian but a real star of the Hindi screen, whom he loves like a son. How can he tell the young man that his twin brother, from whom he was separated at birth, is expected as a Jesuit missionary in Bombay?
A series of misunderstandings and scholarly imbroglios teach us that polyglots with dual passports sometimes play a double game. John Irving signs here his last novel: the funniest and most ambitious. A foreigner in India, his country of origin, as in Canada, his adopted country, but a citizen of the world and a man of good will, his likeable hero, Dr. Daruwalla, takes us on a journey for our edification – and for our greatest joy. His tribulations make us discover all the facets of Bombay, from the shady cabarets to the palaces, from the villas of Malabar Hill to the dives of Kamathipura, not to mention the film studios.
The Grand Parade enters the ring, the venerable Jesuits and the renowned doctors, but also the zenanas, simple transvestites, the hijaras, emasculated transvestites, and the "complete" transsexuals; here appear the mutilated beggars, the dwarf clowns, the sequined trapeze artists, the underage prostitutes and the racist chimpanzees: let's keep our eyes open, the diabolical "dumbo assassin" may be hiding among them. Welcome to the Circus!
Translated from American by Josée Kamoun
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EAN : 9782020206372
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