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Ravan and Eddie
Ravan and Eddie | Kiran Nagarkar
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Ravan and Eddie are the unlikeliest of companions. For one thing, Ravan is Hindu, while Eddie is Catholic. For another, when Ravan was a baby and fell from a balcony, that fall had a dramatic, and very literal, impact on Eddies family. But Ravan and Eddie both live in Central Works Department Chawl No. 17and if you grow up in the crowded Mumbai chawls, you get to participate in your neighbors' lives, whether you like it or not. As we watch the two unlikely heroes of Kiran Nagarkar's acclaimed novel rocket out of the starting blocks of their lives, leaving earth-mothers and absentee fathers, cataclysms and rock n roll in their wake, we're compelled to sit up and take notice. Recently selected by The Guardian as one of the ten best novels about Mumbai, Ravan and Eddie is a comic masterpiece about two larger- and truer-than-life characters and their bawdy, Rabelaisian adventures in postcolonial India. It is also a timeless journey of self-discovery, a quest for the meaning of guilt and responsibility, sin and sex, crime and punishment.
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Ravan and Eddie | Kiran Nagarkar
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#WondrousWednesday
1.Yes !Kiran Nagarkar and Salman Rushdie!
2.No,not accidentally!
3.Hogwarts,it seems the closest to this one!

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Ravan and Eddie | Kiran Nagarkar
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#Littenswanttoknow This is such an excellent question that I want to keep adding to it!Kiran Nagarkar is one of my FAVOURITE writers,and deserves to be as famous as Rushdie.His duology,Ravan and Eddie, and The Extras is an excellent work that traces Bombay itself,through the eponymous, deeply memorable characters.Its just begging for a great screen adaptation.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🙌🏻📚❤️ 2y
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Ravan and Eddie | Kiran Nagarkar
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@Eggs #WondrousWednesday
1. Many books about Bombay, and quite a few about Delhi!
2. I read Live and let die, so Jamaica...would absolutely love to be there!
3. I love Peggy Bettany, from the Chalet School books, so her family.
Merry Christmas, and God bless us, everyone!

Eggs Merry Christmas to you and yours ❤️🎄💚 3y
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Ravan and Eddie | Kiran Nagarkar
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Around 100 people die per month on Bombays overcrowded " locals ". Nobody seems to care.

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Kiran Nagarkar writes such beautiful sentences

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Pretty.much sums it up about India's complicated relationship with English.

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Ravan and Eddie | Kiran Nagarkar
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And such a great description of Chaplin ( 2/2)

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Such a brilliant insight into one of India's most revered directors ( 1/2)

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Ravan and Eddie | Kiran Nagarkar
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1. Though Annihilation was on my TBR for a while, news that Alex Garland was directing the movie motivated me to read it immediately and I really like it!
2.I picked up Possession by AS Byatt because the cover was ethereal and lovely and it's one of my favourite books!
3.Kiran Nagarkar, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Piketty,Nassim Taleb, Jung Chang,Kwasi Kwarteng.At #JLF.
4.Sachertorte, at Sacher's in Vienna, inspired by Tallis' books!
#weekendchat

twohectobooks I bought Possession for different reasons but it‘s still on my tbr shelf, really need to get to it soon! 6y
Vansa @twohectobooks ooh definitely read it , it's a great book !! Byatt is such a talented Author. 6y
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