No God in Sight - Tapa blanda

" Imaginative. . . . [A] captivating whirlwind tour of the cities and people he knows best." -- "San Francisco Chronicle" " [Tyrewala' s] slim, well-crafted book coolly handles a difficult subject: Muslim love and longing in Hindu Mumbai. . . . His raw, gritty vignettes are a necessary antidote to images that are conveyed by works like Mehta' s Maximum City: Mumbai as a vital, pulsating place with new cliche s, which has itself become globalizing, nuclear-powered India' s brand new shibboleth." -- "The Brooklyn Rail"

Hurtling from one first-person account to another, No God In Sight is a daring novel about present-day Bombay?and the individual lives that spark the city's consciousness. Fast-paced and innovative, No God In Sight captures 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 hurled 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.