Poona Company

Poona CompanyBy Farrukh Dhondy₹ 299.00 inclusive of all taxesBuy NowOr from your local bookseller.We will notify you when the book is released!We will email you when the book is released!Please allow notification and avoid private mode for this feature to work.About the bookFacebookXEmailLinkedInMessengerShare‘A beautiful collection, full of affection and an extremely funny book.’ – Salman RushdieIn this collection of nine linked stories, young Farrukh recounts his years growing up in a Parsi neighbourhood in Poona during the fifties.Sarbatwalla Chowk is the centre of the world of those he remembers: Eddie the Inventor and his Big Boy; the massive Samson, who lives on the street and refuses to get a job; the blind man and his guide, Black Dog, supposed to have special powers; Terry Soakum, the Australian crybaby who has his eye on Farrukh’s swimming trunks; Confession D’Souza, the scholarship boy who loses favour with the Jesuits over a ‘dirty book’ and later becomes a courageous journalist; Chamak, a permanent pimple on his big nose, who wants to win the college elections and the heart of ‘Jhansi-ki-Rani’. There’s Farrukh himself, distressed over a pair of broken spectacles, or a knife-fight at school.Warm, funny, sometimes sad but always delightful, Poona Company seems as fresh as when it was first published in 1980, and presents a picture of small-town India observed with a sharp eye and a fond heart – a combination still rare in Indian fiction.Pages: 160 Available in: PaperbackLanguage: EnglishTAGSBestsellersFiction