Tin Fish
About This Book
Barun Ray, known as Brandy, is fifteen and at an elite boarding school in Rajasthan. He loves canned fish and beefsteak, cannot stand Kipling, and worships Michael Caine and Mick Jagger. At school he finds three friends who understand him. Fish is the star swimmer, with a domineering father who hates Muslims. PT Shoe is a princeling who dreams of running off to America to marry a white girl. Porridge, who loves cereal, is the class jester, caught between two feuding churches at home. Together the four stage irreverent and often hilarious rebellions against the regimented fishbowl of a brown-sahib institution, in an India that is turbulent and changing. They eat toothpaste for dessert and plan their own musical, Get Lost on the Ganga and All That. Growing up is not easy, though. They have to make sense of adults who defy understanding, and of Indira Gandhi, the Emergency, urine therapy and girls. Above all they try to hold on to their innocence when something terrible happens. Sudeep Chakravarti writes with wit, dry humour and no sentimentality.
ISBN: 9789350291764
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