Burial at Sea

Author: Singh, Khushwant

Binding: Kindle Edition

Format: Kindle eBook

Number Of Pages: 152

Release Date: 01-09-2010

Details: In this, his fifth novel, one of India’s most widely read authors returns to territories he knows best: twentieth-century Indian history, bogus religion and sexuality.

After Nehru, Victor Jai Bhagwan is Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite Indian—a brilliant young man with the temperament of a leader and fiercely committed to his country. Though Victor adores
and respects Gandhi, he disagrees with the Mahatma’s vision
for the future of India. He returns from university in England
determined to bring the benefits of modern industry to the
subcontinent, and within a few years of India’s independence,
becomes the country’s biggest tycoon. But this is not the only ideal of Gandhi’s that he defies: facing a midlife crisis, he falls passionately in love with a tantric god-woman (who keeps a
tiger as her pet and has a dubious past). She introduces him
to the pleasures of unbridled sexuality, but also becomes the reason for his downfall.

Comic, tender and erotic by turns, Burial at Sea is vintage Khushwant Singh.

Languages: English