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Beach Boy - Ardashir Vakil

Description: ISBN 0684852993 / Genre: Fiction / Cyrus Readymoney has a voyeur's eye and a roving hand. On the brink of adolescence, he greedily ... more

Beach Boy - Ardashir Vakil ... consumes every taste and experience that life has to offer in Bombay; from the seductive pleasures of food and the spectacle of Hindi cinema to the inevitable first discoveries of sex, lies and death...

Newest Review: ... Cyrus yearns for a bit of guidance and discipline. He’s rarely at home with h ... more

... is brothers and sisters, he lives more in his friends’ families; he finds his ersatz father in Mr Krishnan, a sales executive. ‘His life is resolutely simple. I always know what is happening at the Krishnan household’. On weekends, he gets up before dawn to run with Mr Krishnan and his three sons on the beach and follows his strict orders willingly. When it comes to eating, Cyrus is very inventive, he visits his friends’ houses in a certain order so th...more

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Beach Boy - Ardashir Vakil: Hungry Boy (1283 words)
by - written on 21/01/02 (Very useful, 165 readings)
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The blurb ‘Sharp, funny and fast’ by Salman Rushdie, the remark ‘Shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Prize for First Novel and Winner of the Betty Trask award’ and a photo on the cover showing several dark-skinned boys in swimming-trunks jumping from a bank into the water, slightly out of focus thus conveying the impression of speed, and the sticker ‘4 for 3 at Waterstone’s’ made me buy the book. It’s clear that no novel by an Anglo-Indian author can appear without Salman Rushdie being asked to utter a blurb-able comment; it’s tempting to compare a novel by an Anglo-Indian author, especially when it’s ... Read the complete review