Man on Fire

Availability:

In Stock

Man on Fire

By: Stephen Kelman

(0)

Rs 1,017.00
Rs 1,695.00
40%

You save Rs 678.00.

Pay in 3 Installments of

Rs. 390

Due to constant currency fluctuation, prices are subject to change with or without notice.

I was beating the life out of Bibhuti with a baseball bat when my first monsoon broke. John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny: a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impressive moustache. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England: decades wasted in a meaningless job, a marriage foundering in the wake of loss and a terrible secret he cannot bear to share with his wife. He has come to offer his help to a man who has learned to conquer pain, a world record breaker who specialises in feats of extreme endurance and ill-advised masochism. Bibhuti Nayak's next record attempt - to have fifty baseball bats broken over his body - will set the seal on a career that has seen him rise from poverty to become a minor celebrity in a nation where standing out from the crowd requires tenacity, courage and perhaps a touch of madness. In answering Bibhuti's call for assistance, John hopes to rewrite a brave end to a life poorly lived. But as they take their leap of faith together, and John is welcomed into Bibhuti's family, and into the colour and chaos of Mumbai - where he encounters ping-pong-playing monks, a fearless seven-year-old martial arts warrior and an old man longing for the monsoon to wash him away - he learns more about life, and death, and everything in between than he could ever have bargained for.

Publication Date:

13/08/2015

Number of Pages::

100

Binding:

Hard Back

ISBN:

9781408865460

Categories:

Contemporary Fiction

Fiction & Literature

Books