Author: Richard Crasta
Publisher: Invisible Man Books/Variety
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 333
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187185074
Description
The Revised Kama Sutra tells the story of Vijay Prabhu, a small-town, middle-class Indian boy, a survivor of assorted Jesuit boarding schools and the Five Pillars of Oppression-bells, canes, penis shame, girl shame, and sports. Filled with erotic longing and a deep desire to be free of conservative Mangalore, Vijay Prabhu embarks on a sexual and spiritual odyssey that finally ends in America, the land of free sex, free speech, greenbacks, and Campbell’s Cream of Chichen Soup.
Along he way, this novel gives us new and gloriously comic insights into sex, childhood, colonialism, desire, ambition, women, and naïve third World dreamers of he American Dream.
One of the funniest and most talked about novels to come out of India, The Revised Kama Sutra, with its distinctive voice and its hilarious story of an Indian boy growing into manhood, has garnered rave reviews from readers and critics alike and has been translated into languages as diverse and exotic as Latvian and Hebrew.
And now, the highly acclaimed original Viking Penguin edition is brought back to you word for word by Invisible Man Books. This internationally praised tale of an Indian Everyman, a pioneering novel of modern India, is in the shortlist of books about India recommended by Lonely Planet.
Very Funny.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Famous American Author
A craftsman of letters. Hilarious. Almost read it nonstop.
-Khushwant Singh
Hilarious… surrealist…important.
-The Hindu
Hilarious contemporary Indian novel shot with some serious undercurrents. A rich and multi-faceted story An indictment of colonialism and the colonial legacy on which we depend. A surrealist vision of India. .
Contents
PROLOGUE
THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM
Or, Encounters With Dharma
The Churchill Factor
The Beginnings of Sorrow
The Aunt Who Loved Water Sports
Underwear
The Water of Life
Bag Lady
The Five Pillars of Oppression
TURNING AWAY THE DOGS OF GOD
In the Time of Artha
Reunion
Low Living, High Thinking
Prometheus Unzipped
How To Succeed
Love in the region of Filaria
The Road to a Woman’s Heart
Domestic Bliss
Kiss Kiss Kill Kill
Love’s Labours Lost
DELICIOUS UNDERTAKINGS
Or, The Rule of Kama
Dancing School
City of Nawabs
The Real Thing
Shillong
ENDLESS LAUGHTER
Or, The Moksha Express
The Tao of Power
Of Human Bondage
Toil and trouble
America
Les Miserables
Running Away
Return
Moksha Express
EPILOGUE
NARRATOR’S WHIMSICAL GLOSSARY