No God in Sight

No God in Sight
Authors
Tyrewala, Altaf
Publisher
Anchor Canada
ISBN
9780385673327
Date
2005-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
1.84 MB
Lang
en
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Fast — paced and innovative, **No God in Sight** captures the seething multiplicity of Bombay through the 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.

Insightful, ironic, and scathingly honest, **No God in Sight** is a brilliant debut by a talented young writer.

*From the Trade Paperback edition.*