01603nam a22002177a 4500 20260123161811.0 230628b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0144000601 AL eng 23 820.33 TYRN Altaf Tyrewala 252460 No God in Sight New Delhi Penguin Books 2005 iv,171p. PB 19x13cm. English 195.00 ₹ 195.00 A 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. Indian English Fiction 125057 Indian English Literature 125058 ddc DB 227707 227707 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2023-06-23 0 820.33 TYRN D05925 2023-06-28 00:00:00 2023-06-28 DB