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| "The undoubted success story that is the contemporary
Indian novel continues apace with this splendid and far-reaching
satire on the Hindi film industry.... Shashi Tharoor has published
a novel funnier, cleverer and more profound than any of these
books.... With zest and narrative gusto,... Tharoor subjects
[Hindi films] to a series of virtuoso parodies which are at
once faithful, witty and affectionate.... Tharoor has succeeded
in pulling off a considerable literary coup — by writing
an enormously funny and enjoyable novel which has never for
a moment been frivolous." |
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- Jonathan Coe, The Sunday Times, London
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"Exuberant and clever... both affectionately and fiercely
done.... What makes "Show Business" particularly impressive
and accomplished is its elaborate structure, [which] replicates
the crazy razzle-dazzle of the Hindi film world, [and] also
permits Shashi Tharoor to comment, with telling irony and insight,
on the curious parallels between India's unique film culture
and the swarming, baffling and beguiling variety - the vivacity
and corruption, the serenity and chaos, the sophistication and
naive self-delusion - of India itself.... We look forward with
avid enthusiasm to his next novel." |
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- William Boyd, The New York Times Book
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