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Imprint: Orient Paperbacks
Publication Date: 01 Sep, 2008
Pages Count: 176 Pages
Weight: 175.00 Grams
Dimensions: 5.00 x 8.00 Inches
Series: Library of South Asian Literature
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About the Book:
The Strange Case of Billy Biswas is a compellingly thought provoking novel. A novel in which the normal and the abnormal, the ordinary and the extraordinary, illusion and reality, resignation and desire to rub shoulders.
The protagonist, Billy Biswas, is a man of extraordinary passions. He has everything going for him - education, wealth, status, travel and a loving wife. Yet his inner world is rocked by a groundswell of discontent. He is consumed by a restlessness which grows steadily...
Characterised by great elan and sophistication, the narrative unfolds in quick succession, and would be hard to believe were it not related in such a matter of fact, down to earth manner.
In Joshi's hands we are swept into the unknown…
Arun Joshi (1939-1993), son of a botanist and an eminent educationist, was born in Varanasi and educated in India and the U.S. After getting his Masters degree in Industrial Management from M.I.T., he returned to India to pursue a career in the corporate world.
Yet writing remained his passion. In the five novels he wrote he spun out some of the most though-provoking and outstanding fiction written in the twentieth century Indian literature and firmly established his credentials as a writer of rare talent and sensitivity.
The Last Labyrinth won him the Sahitya Akademi Award, India’s highest literary honour in 1982.