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Descripción: Este es un libro esóterico que relata la historia de la creación y la caída del demiurgo creador, en una teología similar a la de los primeros cristianos, gnósticos. Su autor, Kabir, es la encarnac...
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PUBLISHER: Rupa Publications New world library PUBLICATION DATE: July 1991 PAGES: 250
THEME: It is a Comedy Fiction which focuses on the socio-economical clashes between the Indian and American culture. PREMISE:
The Author chose to portray stereotypical characters from both the Indian culture and the American culture. The interactions between them and the lead character’s endeavor to accept and understand the American culture overall makes it a humorous book. GENRE:
It is a Comedy Fiction.
PLOT:
Gopal, the son of a hair oil factory owner in Madhya Pradesh, arrives in America to study chemical engineering in a university in Eversville, Already
having a very impressive knowledge in his field. He begins to get exposed to the American Culture slowly from different discovery of American girls, naked billboards, and new gadgets and continues on with telephone and the multi-colored channeled T.V. He meets Randy, who starts introducing him to the American society and culture. As the story rises into action Gopal’s priorities that “I am only going to classes, library and home ” begins to change. Randy takes him to restaurants, on double dates and different places through the story. He starts getting absorbed by the American ways of life where he asks for a cigarette to impress t he lady at the bar. Later on Gopal has some intra-personal conflict that he faces whether to continue or go home because of the unexpected events that took place outside the bar. Further ahead he gets exposed to the actual reality of America, The Dark or the Grey side of a society that many people are not aware of its existence. He gets shocked on seeing the poverty in the most promising and richest lands. Christmas vacation begins and he starts feeling lonely and depressed. In the meantime he tries a lot to get laid but unsuccessful after many failures. Finally his one year comes to an end and he departs from his campus. The climax comes when Gopal meets a women in the plane where he begins to discuss his adventure with the women in America, his fear of a plain and bored future in India as the American culture clawed its addicted upon him. In this plan, his fantasy finally had been fulfilled and got laid 30,000 feet above the ocean. CHARACTER: Gopal: Gopal is the village boy from a place known as the Paris of Madhya Pradesh, who was entangled in the pure India culture. He was a person who would obey his parents and grand-parents wished too like; eat food that was cooked by bhramin’s only or don’t mingle with girls and many more. In the start he was an innocent guy who loved coke. Later he became hypnotized or dragged into the American culture as he smoked cigarettes just to impress a lady at the bar or further in the story has a desire to get laid.
Randy: Randy is a cheerful American with curly brown hair. He is like the side kick of Gopal and is like the perfect & complex spice that merges his thoughts with the protagonist. After meeting Gopal, he prepares this one ambition or “The Mission” of his life that is to get the innocent f ool laid. Gloria: Gloria is the manager of a double- storey apartment complex and it is the place where Gopal is going to stay. She is a fat lady with no facial characterization except having a small nose which is staying afloat atop of the fat. She doesn’t have any kids but has a lot of affection for her flowering vases and treats each one as little babies. She is a poet and she writes amazingly like: “The twitch of my hip; Can make a man sick” “The glow in my soul; Can burn a big hole”
Andy a.k.a Anand : Anand is a short, thin and is long haired with a moustache. He is an India who foolishly stylishly speaks in the American accent but it feels as if an illiterate India is trying very hard to adopt the accent and fails in it miserably and unknowingly. His Character becomes very hilarious when he calls Gopal as “Goh-Pahl”. He always criticizes India for everything and compares it with America. He fantasizes of developing India by once becoming the president and shooting all the ministers one-by-one. REVIEW:
It’s my first novel that I have ever read and I thought that it was hilarious. Gopal, the village boy’s innocence had been portrayed very convincingly and his obsession with the Jajau’s Hair Oil Factory is a laugh out loud! I really loved the part when Gopal bargain’s with the casher and the manager in the mall and succeeds in it & was a very cute scene. This book made me laugh a lot and I really enjoyed reading it. There are many scenes that made me laugh till my stomach pained and maybe made people around wonder whether I have gone Crazy.
I felt the problem with this arise mid-way! It gets monotonous and I think that the author tries too hard to hold the reader’s attention. It is as if two different individuals have written the two half’s of the book. The story abruptly stop’s being funny and gets a little annoying. There was too much of details and absolutely lack of direction. It Ruined my interest in Gopal’s fate. I stopped Caring for Gopal’s fate anymore as he only wanted to get laid for the last eighty pages or so. Was it a waste of money? I think that for 90 bucks it was something that many Indians would say “Paisa- Vasuul” i.e. that I enjoyed reading this book too. Was it Expected? I thought that it was pretty unexpected with different Twist’s & Turns. For example after he comes out of a bar the trouble that he goes through was like a shock to me. GRADE:
