No God in Sight
By Altaf Tyrewala
August 18, 2006ISBN: 1-59692-194-3
Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Pages: 200
Price: $23.00 Rights: U.S. Other Rights: Penguin Books India.
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About the Book
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. 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.
About the Author
Altaf Tyrewala lives in Bombay and Mumbai. He has worked as a cashier, a telemarketer, a clerk, and an instructional writer. This is his first novel.