The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (Paperback)

Paperback. The most arresting Indian novel since Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things. Thirty years from now, old Paresh Bhatt settles down to drink an espresso (made, somewhat ostentatiously, with real water), and reflects on the key moments of his life. But even as Paresh recalls his parents' courtship during the freedom movement of the 1930s, his daughter, Para, is in the air a crack fighter pilot in the belligerent Indian airforce, mounting raids against the Pak-Saudi allianceSharp, modern, fluent and varied, this is a debut novel from India of an utterly original kind. Joshi has found a style and a form in which to say new things about the Indian experience in a new manner. This novel takes three generations of a Gujarati family and uses them to track the course of Indian history back to 1930 and forward into the first decades of the next century. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.