ARGONAUT BOOKS

In the early 1980s, a young Indian boy comes to London to study English Literature. Ananda is shy and sensitive and among his white-faced fellow British students, he feels out of place. Also in London is Ananda's uncle, a debonair, anorexic bachelor in his sixties. Having been made redundant from his job, Rangamama lives in a bedsit in Hampstead, hording plastic bags from Bugdens and torturing himself with thoughts about a promotion he never received. An eccentric virgin and a terminal loner, Rangamama is a foil to what the young Ananda fears he may become. Over the course of one day, the nove...Read More