Richard Crasta

One Little Indian (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This novel is an Indian "Angela's Ashes," one in which the little Vijay Prabhu, connecting with Robin Hood, John F. Kennedy, and Western movies, has to make a slight readjustment to his dreams. Instead of becoming a Pope or a saint, he dreams of going to America, the land of milk, honey, and Campbell's Cream of Chicken Soup and becoming a millionaire philanthropist.

A complete novel in itself, "One Little Indian" is a reworking of the childhood, coming of age first half of The Revised Kama Sutra (which is actually two or four novels in one, according to two reputed authors at the Stone Coast conference), and it includes additional, never-published chapters that had been left out of "The Revised Kama Sutra" because of space constraints. The later, more unequivocally adult sections have been omitted from this book, which can be shared with a larger audience of cosmopolitan, widely read men and women.

The Telegraph described "One Little Indian" as "a surprisingly delightful novel by a genuinely irreverent Indian from Mangalore." Commenting on how the novel does not fit the priggish mold of most other Indian writing, it adds: "Crasta's raunchiness is a mix of Khushwant Singh and Laurence Sterne. The unstoppably copious funniness is Shandian."

"A superb Mangalore-centric novel"DP Satish

"An achingly beautiful book on the inner world pathos and outer world absurdity of growing up - both inner and outer, sometimes outrageously funny. It applies to all humans anywhere, since we all experience growing up, but is set in India in the late 1950s and 60s. What really makes this a work of genius for me is not only the way it recaptures growing up, but the pictures it paints of India on virtually every page."-- Mark David Ledbetter, Author.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Invisible Man Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781536552546
• Artikelnr.: 46207310

Autorenporträt

Early 2024: As of this date, I have published 15 or more books and ebooks (some under pseudonyms such as Benny Profane and Vijay Prabhu, and two as Avatar Prabhu), lived 24 or more years of my life in India and the U.S., and more than ten in Southeast Asia, but I have never mooned anyone, or photo-bombed, and never used the f-word as an adjective in casual speech (to compensate, I do use it in some of my books, given that D.H. Lawrence already won us the right to use it in the 1920s and 1930s). Perhaps the reason for my verbal shyness lies in my roots: I was born in Bangalore, India, but mostly grew up in coastal Mangalore (Kudla in Tulu, Kodial in Konkani), shepherded by conservative Catholic nuns and priests (who would have restarted the Spanish Inquisition, Portuguese edition, if permitted). As a means of escape, at 10, I wrote my first short "novel" ... which made a classmate laugh so much (at the book, and at me for daring to think I could write) that he passed it around and around for more derisive laughter and it was lost forever (however, being a cautious optimist, I offer a reward of $100 for its miraculous safe return). That first setback did not stop me from dreaming of becoming a writer in America. Working briefly in India's Administrative Service (IAS), where I pretended to quell two riots, granted land to tenants, and conducted two state elections unchallenged by Rudy Giuliani or Che Guevera, I soon went to America on a student visa to study literature, and stayed on, beginning my first novel while at Columbia University, while also bearing responsibility for the birth of three bouncing boys (two of whom are now big enough to be bouncers). That novel, ironically titled The Revised Kama Sutra, received wide critical acclaim, was described as "very funny" by the late Kurt Vonneguthe himself is the poster boy and the dictionary definition of funnyit's been published in ten countries and in seven languages. My passions include music, comedy, and opposing war, oppression, injustice and greed ... if possible, by joking about it. Lord Bush of Iraq and What We All Need represent some of these passions, as do other works in progress.