Beach Boy - Ardashir Vakil Reviews
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Newest Review: ... Cyrus yearns for a bit of guidance and discipline. He’s rarely at home with h ... more
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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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Ardashir Vakil Beach Boy Pages: 224, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Penguin Books Ltd Last Update 21.05.2013 06:03
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Beach Boy - Ardashir Vakil: Hungry Boy (1283 words)by - written on 21/01/02, updated on 11/10/04 (Very useful, 170 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
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