No God in Sight
by Altaf Tyrewala
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A daring novel about present-day Bombay and the individual lives that spark the city's consciousness. Fast-paced and innovative,No God in Sightcaptures the seething multiplicity of Bombay through 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 show more 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 Sightis a brilliant debut by a talented young writer. show lessTags
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- Canonical title*
- Nessun dio in vista
- Original title
- No god in sight
- Original publication date
- 2006
- Important places
- Mumbai, India; India
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- Paper, Ebook
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