Product Description
Delighful stories about love, lust, friendship, betrayal and the ways of the heart An ageing and unsuccessful poet whose life and literary views have been overtaken by rap artists, celebrity-hungry American students, Indian archaeologists and other hustlers. His patient and abandoned wife who sets out on her voyage of discovery. London s Indian gigolos and their American victims or predators. A small-town mathematicsteacher- turned-cheese-impresario. An Englishman waiting for a transplant that would enable him to start a family exchanging desperate emails with a prospective donor s relative. As these disparate elements come together in a delightful mix, we encounter the tragedy of good intentions, in monumental proportions. Relationships fold and unfold as faith and the seventh commandment are tested and broken in these enjoyable stories. Would cater to the urban reader and the reader who is looking for light reading The stories have a twist in the end A book by well-known media personality Farrukh Dhondy who has many other books to his credit including The Bikini Murders
About the Author
Farrukh Dhondy was born in Pune in 1944. After graduating in physics from Wadia College, he won a scholarship to Cambridge to train as a quantum physicist but ended up reading for a BA in English. He has lived in England since and has worked as a teacher, and as a commissioning editor at Channel 4 television. Dhondy s first collection of stories, East End at Your Feet, was published in 1977. He is the author of Come to Mecca, Run!, Poona Company, Bombay Duck, and C.L.R. James: A Life. He also writes screenplays for films, television, and for the stage.