Product Description

Set amid the turbulence of Indian partition and independence, the hero of this tale is a young photographer who has a mysterious accident while testing out his new telescopic lens. He is propelled back to the year 1942, and there begins his own comic odyssey through the crumbling Raj.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33201 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

Partition? Yeah, but also postmodern...
As the synopsis says, Kesavan's book deals with the partition, but it is so much more than that. What the synopsis fails to inform is that it is hugely funny and, furthermore, that it is also a highly postmodern work without being annoyingly so. Unlike so many other works bearing this label, it is not an experiment in unreadability, but quite the opposite. Despite being set in the time around the partition, many of its themes are postmodern, though its style (thankfully) refrains from being so. Readers who are only familiar with Indian fiction through Rushdie may find 'Midnight's Children' a close equivalent both in choice of theme and use of magic realism. A very good debut - I'm waiting for more...