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SELLING POINTS
¢ A one-of-its-kind, humorous and irreverent take on India`s colonial history and our continuing fascination with American consumerism
¢ Entertaining plot, excellently portrayed characters, energetic writing, hilarious situations
¢ A complete entertainment package for readers who love a good story and a good laugh
ABOUT THE BOOK
`Vikram Nair`s novel is a lunatic romp that begins as a colonial adventure and ends with the conquest of the West by Indian fast food. Like a runaway food processor, it rounds up pink colonial sahibs, ambitious wogs, pedigreed bawarchis, gross desi public school boys, a Russian heroine called Svetlana, godmen and Woodstock, and purees them into a lavatorial epic. If you want to read funny foodie fiction that takes the pleasures of the flesh seriously, this is your novel.` “ Mukul Kesavan. Kalaam, a kathua, by caste a spinner of yarn, discovers by delicious accident that he has a god-given flair for concocting the most delectable recipes “ a gift that he passes through his son Param to his grandson Pakwaan, the true inheritor of his passion and talent. It is Pakwaan`s extraordinary rendition of the Vindaloo, honed to mouth-watering perfection, that catches the fancy of everyone who tastes it, including Svetlana, a nirvana-seeking Russo-American who is convinced that this dish (and its very exotic creator) is the answer to the Western world`s craving for all things exotic. But what adventures await the starry-eyed Pakwaan in the great US-of-A, the promised land of possibilities?
A rollicking ride through a century`s worth of history, Gone with the Vindaloo follows the lives, times and exploits of three generations in a family of cooks. Delightfully subversive and consistently irreverent, this many-layered debut serves up imperialism, consumerism and packaged food in a whole new light. ISBN 9789350095898
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Pages : 256
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