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Irving's eighth novel is a feast. Picking up stylistically where A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) left off, Irving has perfected his impressive narrative skills and launched into unexpected territory: a murder mystery rife with antic sexuality and set in the seething city of Bombay, home of India's film industry (Bollywood), hoards of street urchins and prostitutes, and the last tattered remnants of British colonialism. Irving achieves an almost Dickensian richness with his cast of vivid and eccentric characters, loopy yet converging plot lines, moral underpinning, and predicaments both hilarious and wrenching. Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, a dreamy fellow at home neither in his native city of Bombay, nor his adopted domicile, Toronto, is at the heart of this dynamic universe. When in Bombay, Daruwalla indulges his peculiar passions for collecting blood from dwarfs (to study their genes) and for going to the circus. When he isn't occupied with these amusements or practicing medicine, the good but distracted doctor is busy writing the screenplays for an egregious yet wildly popular series of films featuring the hero Bombay loves to hate, the sneering Inspector Dhar. The enigmatic star of these provoking movies is a magnet for trouble in the form of a dangerous admirer who has transformed himself from a boy into what passes as a woman. Dhar's life is further complicated by the arrival of his heretofore unknown identical twin. Irving's nimble humor springs from compassionate insights into cultural and sexual confusion and alienation, baffling questions of faith and purpose, and the kind of hope that thrives in even the most jaded atmosphere. Donna Seaman
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Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989, etc.) sets his new book about outcasts and freaks in India, but the story is weighed down by the same stale bag of tricks he has been trotting out since Garp, only now they are more tedious than ever. Part murder mystery, part travelogue, part meditation on faith, sexual personae, and prejudice, the story follows Dr. Daruwalla, an orthopedic surgeon who lives in Toronto, back to India, where he was born. In Bombay, he tries to find a genetic marker for achondroplastic dwarfism--the condition that afflicts the circus dwarves he loves. Daruwalla is also a secret screenwriter for the Hindi cinema and has created the enormously popular and universally loathed Inspector Dahr--a character he invented for a man whom he had rescued as a child and who is like a son to him. And, in a typical Hindi film twist, the real Inspector Dahr has an identical twin who was separated at birth and has grown up in Canada. This twin also travels to Bombay, as a priest in training, unaware of his twin, the extreme hatred for his look-alike, or the fact that the current film seems to have inspired a series of murders and that he or his brother might be the next victim. Subplots involving the fates of orphans, prostitutes, homosexuals, people with the HIV virus, and children sold into bondage are all marched out like speakers at a mulch convention. The descriptions of the Indian circuses and the lives of the performers are the most interesting parts of the book, but they are buried under an avalanche of blather. The idea of disassociation, that ``immigrants are immigrants all their lives,'' is ham-fistedly pounded into the reader without any of the humor or grace of Garp or even Cider House Rules. Irving's literary hero, Dickens, was paid by the word and was serialized in magazines, so he had a need to pad. Irving has no such excuse. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Hier haben wir mal einen Irving mit Anlauf-Schwierigkeiten: ungefähr das erste Viertel des Buches kommt überhaupt nicht in die Gänge. Kein Vergleich mit z. B. "Widow for a year", das ich einfach nur verschlungen habe. Aber wenn man den Anfang, in dem alle Hauptfiguren irgendwie nur so vor sich hin dümpeln, überstanden hat, wird das Buch plötzlich richtig, richtig gut. Es werden allmählich die Zusammenhänge deutlich, Handlungsstränge werden zusammengeführt, und Lesen macht auf einmal wieder richtig Spaß, weil Irving phantasiemäßig wieder mal aus den Vollen schöpft.
Aber kaum hat man sich über diese Wendung gefreut, da flacht das Buch auch schon wieder ab- die Handlung döst wieder völlig orientierungslos vor sich hin, und es gibt für das vorherrschende Gefühl nur ein Wort: Langeweile. Zumindest bei mir. Und zwar bis zum Ende, das zwar wieder etwas unterhaltsamer wird, aber den Gesamteindruck des Buches nicht mehr retten kann. Schade, schade, schade.
Noch ein Wort zu Irving's Darstellung von Indien: ich habe von Indien zugegebenermaßen gar keine Ahnung. Aber ich weiß mittlerweile, daß keiner von Irving's Charakteren ein Durchschnittsmensch ist; sie sind alle verschroben und/oder exzentrisch- oder würde irgendjemand Garp oder Owen Meany als Vorzeigeamerikaner sehen? Insofern denke ich mir: nicht alles so eng sehen. Irving hat mit Sicherheit nicht den Anspruch, ein Land detailgetreu darzustellen, wahrscheinlich brauchte er einfach nur einen Hintergrund für die bunte und phantasievolle Geschichte, die ihm vorgeschwebt hatte.
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Being a halfindian, who was born in germany and is living in europe ever since, I feel a soulmate of Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla. I read this book during my 6. trip to india, visiting my family in 1996. Daruwalla loves india, but he feels "out of it" everytime he visits. I do understand the outrage of some indian reviewers, but unfortunately for them, I think, that the essence of how india may appear to foreigners or exiles like Daruwalla is captured adequately in this book. Of course Irving adds his usual exaggerations, but you can't criticize him for "making fun" of indians or india or projecting a wrong picture of them in this novel. Doing so would imply that you think, that characters like Garp or Owen Meany from his other novels depict the average american citizen.
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This book just stirred me up inside, made think about things I never thought they where there. I read it afew years ago but I still can remember how it made me cry and laugh in the end at the same time. But laughing got stronger in the end. Laughing about lifes fun making of all of us. And that is what all his books are about, real feelings, real life. Because, don't you think, too that life is something to laugh about and not cry about. I do when I read Irvings book. Laugh about the cruelty of life and feel much better afterwards.
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John Irving At His Best
This may surpass 'A Prayer For Owen Meany' as my favorite John Irving novel. It had all of the typical trademarks of Irving in one sense, but the story line was like nothing that... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Juni 2000 von R. Block
A delightful read
I was delighted by this book, in which it seems that Irving has left some of his usual themes apart, which is a refreshing turn. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Mai 2000 von Javier Echavarri
Irving shows (again) why he's the finest novelist around
This is a wonderful novel--engrossing, well-crafted, moving, humorous, and profound. Even after 630+ pages, I was sorry to come to the end of the book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Mai 2000 von Douglas A. Greenberg
Enchanting
I read this book before I travelled to India, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. After travelling to Delhi, I have a new appreciation for his explanations on the abundant cacophony of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. April 2000 von Gloria Warwell-Oberst
Criminal story a'la Irving.
Criminal story a'la Irving. India, hot, wet and humid. British club full of mysteries. And of course Iowa and Vienna, although this time his constant features are dimmed. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. März 2000 von Zeit
ANOTHER WINNER
This is also another book by Irving that I have read many times. It is in my "don't loan out or you'll never get it back" collection (along with A Prayer for Owen... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
panoply of imaginings
I looked for this book because I lost it moving, and last week a friend began talking about it and I wanted it again. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Dezember 1999 von Lance E. Mason
Just a very funny read
Have read plenty by John Irving. This book is untypical of him in the way that it isn't serious at its heart. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Dezember 1999 von Curiosity #3
leaden comedy
This is a huge, hugely self-important comedy that has all the heart and buoyancy of a shard of flint. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Fascinating story, taught me alot about India and its people
This is a LONG book and, like Irving's other novels, contains many sub-plots. While not every sub-plot "works", the overall effect is a fun romp through India. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. November 1999 veröffentlicht
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