A son of the circus

Inbunden bok. London : Bloomsbury. 1994. 633 sidor.

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The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus'. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, two decades later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer ...

"Ringmaster Irving introduces act after act, until three (or more) rings are awhirl at a lunatic pace. He spills characters from his imagination as agilely as improbable numbers of clowns pile out of a tiny car. His Bombay and his Indian characters are vibrant and convincing." (The Wall Street). "The novel may not be 'about' India, but Irving's imagined India, which Daruwalla visits periodically, is a remarkable achievement - a pandemonium of servants and clubmen, dwarf clowns and transvestite whores, missionaries and movie stars. This is a land of energetic colliding egos, of modern media clashing with ancient cultures, of broken sexual boundaries." (New York Newsday). "His most daring and vibrant novel, told with gusto and delightful irreverence." (Bharati Mukherjee, The Washington Post Book World). "A son of the circus is comic genius! Get ready for Irving's most raucous novel to date!" (The Boston Globe). [Engelska].

AV JOHN IRVING: Garp och hans värld / Hotell New Hampshire / Vattenståndet / Welterviktsäktenskapet / Släpp björnarna loss! / Ciderhusreglerna / En bön för Owen Meany / Cirkusens son / Den inbillade flickvännen : minnen och berättelser / Änka i ett år / Mina filmresor : en memoar / Den fjärde handen / Tills jag finner dig / Sista natten i Twisted River / I en människa / Mysteriernas gata.