The hilarious novel describes one year spent on a small university campus in the U.S.A. by an Indian student. He comes out of a small town, locally reputed to be 'the Paris of Madhya Pradesh'. His English is comically Indian, and his initial notions of America are absurdly inadequate and stereotyped. The theme of the novel is his comic discovery of America and and his own growth and maturing through his diverse adventures there. The novel is thus a variation on the form of the bildungsroman with a fool-protagonist, with the difference that the native wit of the protagonist far transcends his linguistic limitations. This novel thus has an acuteness and a depth of meaning which go far beyond the obvious comic implications of the chosen initial situation.
- ISBN10 8171670407
- ISBN13 9788171670406
- Publish Date 1 December 2008 (first published 12 December 1991)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 247
- Language English