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White Man Falling Mike Stocks

White Man Falling von Mike Stocks

White Man Falling Mike Stocks


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Zusammenfassung

A tale of domestic catastrophe, accidental crime busting, deluded match-making and mystical absurdity that is set in a small town in South India.

White Man Falling Zusammenfassung

White Man Falling Mike Stocks

Police sub-inspector Swami has lost his job after suffering a stroke while beating up a very guilty suspect. He can no longer talk properly, command the respect of his community, or give his six daughters the bankrupting dowries they deserve - and his wife is obsessed with securing the most expensive husbands in India. No wonder Swami has lost his pride and wants to kill himself using only a puncture repair kit. Surely a man in these circumstances has good reason to feel cursed when a white man falls out of the sky and lands on him in a busy street, dying in front of his eyes and making him a laughing stock. But as further strange incidents occur, Swami's hometown starts to believe he is walking with God, and life becomes easier...Mike Stocks' comic tour de force brilliantly exemplifies how sometimes in life meaningless events can produce meaningful effects.

White Man Falling Bewertungen

"White Man Falling is that rare and wondrous thing - a perfectly realized serious comic novel. That it is also a first novel makes it all the more extraordinary." - Sarah Dunant

"It is the precision and originality of Mike Stocks's prose that makes this tragicomedy of Indian manners hard to put down and a joy to pick up." - Mark Amory, The Spectator

"A warm-hearted comedy . . . Stocks's poetic background . . . manifests itself in beautiful turns of phrase . . . and in the interweaving of Indian English throughout the text. There is a vogue in contemporary fiction for leaping between characters and timeframes like a flea seeking a tasty host. White Man Falling is a reminder that a single location and perspective, and linear chronology, can be deeply satisfying." - The Times

"The writing is witty and engaging . . . an entertaining read, with all the ingredients of a comedy of errors - confusion, deluded matchmaking, mystical absurdity. There are underlying metaphors, but the book is essentially a satire of the search for meaning in the meaningless." - The New Statesman

"A witty and occasionally lyrical novel." - The Melbourne Age

"A rare gem of a comic first novel . . . Mike Stocks's White Man Falling' set in fast-changing contemporary India' delivers an acute' affectionately observed satire on modern family life' police corruption and the power of religion." - The Independent

Über Mike Stocks

Mike Stocks is the founder and editor of Anon, the anonymous submissions poetry magazine. His debut literary novel, White Man Falling, won the Goss first Novel Award in 2006. His translations of Roman poet Belli will be published by Oneworld Classics in Spring 2007.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR003699581
9781846880360
184688036X
White Man Falling Mike Stocks
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Alma Books Ltd
2007-04-20
284
Winner of Goss First Novel Award 2006
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