Bombay Talkie by Ameena Meer

Journalist Meer's first novel is as gaudy and melodramatic as the movies she evokes in her title. American-born Sabah's parents convince her to visit India, and she is thrust into the unravelling lives of an American-born friend, now married to an Indian and that of her famous movie star uncle and his family. The story is woven from the characters' inner monologues and a narrative that describes the seamiest excesses of wealth, poverty, sexism, racial consciousness, deception and hypocrisy with the pace and detachment of a journalist. This 1998 Serpent's Tail Paperback is in fair condition. Foxing; cover creased.

ISBN: 9781852427078 SKU: 1563979 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1563979
Location: Fiction