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100			_aAltaf Tyrewala _9252460
245			_aNo God in Sight
260			_aNew Delhi _bPenguin Books _c2005
300			_aiv,171p. _bPB _c19x13cm.
365			_2English _b195.00 _c₹ _d195.00
520			_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.
650			_aIndian English Fiction _9125057
650			_aIndian English Literature _9125058
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