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A bitter-sweet funny novel about a movie-mad boy growing up in Bombay, discovering girls, food and of course the cinema - all the time under the watchful eye of his outrageously demanding mother. His idyllic world is brought to a sudden end by the death of his father - and his mother's new relationship.
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A coming-of-age story set in Bombay following a boy's passage to adolescence with sex and samosas, sea and shore, truant afternoons, Hindi films, and a woman's seductive daughter. The city is full of unforgettable sights and smells and includes discoveries about lies and death, meals and girls.
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Ardashir Vakil was brought up in Bombay and educated at Oxford. He teaches English at Pimlico Comprehensive School, and lives in Chelsea. This is his first novel.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0140264892
- ISBN 13 9780140264890
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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