About this title: The age-old conflicts between father and son are played out in this humorous and gently satirical novel set in postpartition India. Omi is just one of the boys in Camp Baldev Nagar expected to pass his exams, agree to an arranged marriage, and generally improve his station in life. However, he comes to resent the traditional life laid out for him by his hot-blooded, sweet-vending, social-climbing father. Creating a great deal of ill will as he challenges his father's authority, Omi strives to establish his independence and chart his own life. Along the way he surprises everybody, including ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780718123871ISBN:0718123875
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo (8 3/4"). "Ribald, humorous and delicately drawn, Nation of Fools shows provincial India of the 1950s n all its ramshackle glory. It is a memorably vivid and extremely funny first novel by one of India's leading contemporary painters, now living in London. " Dust jacket front flap light sticker wear. 252 pp. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: M. Joseph
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780718123871ISBN:0718123875
Description: Good in good jacket. A slight tan to the page edges. Ex library book. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. read more
Description: Ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. pp., 500grams, ISBN: 0718123875. read more
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