01521nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200210008810000190010924500200012826000350014830000270018336500330021052010270024365000270127065000300129720260123161811.0230628b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0144000601  cAL  aeng  223a820.33bTYRN  aAltaf Tyrewala  aNo God in Sight  aNew DelhibPenguin Booksc2005  aiv,171p.bPBc19x13cm.  2Englishb195.00c₹d195.00  aA daring novel about present-day Bombay and the individual lives that spark the city’s consciousness.
Fast-paced and innovative, No God in Sight captures the seething multiplicity of Bombay through first-person accounts of an abortionist, a convert, a pregnant refugee, a gangster in hiding, a butcher, and an apathetic CEO, among others.
As the reader is hurtled from monologue to short story to anecdote, disparate lives collide in tantalizing ways. A family flees religious persecution in their village to take refuge in an urban slum; women walk the tightrope of free will and dormant violence; a father and son grant each other the relief of estrangement; and young men and women struggle to comprehend the consequences of sexual attraction. At the heart of the action is the city itself: a teeming, breathing, suffering Bombay that demands subservience and total surrender before it will sanction survival.
Insightful, ironic, and scathingly honest, No God in Sight is a brilliant debut by a talented young writer.  aIndian English Fiction  aIndian English Literature