Fathered by an Englishman, Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become the Impressionist, was passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her husband, a wealthy man of high caste. At fifteen the news of Pran's true parentage is revealed to his father and he is tossed out into the street. Thus begins an extraordinary journey of a young man who must often reinvent himself to survive.Imprisoned in a brothel and dressed in women's clothes, his sensuous beauty is exploited as he is made to become Rukhsana. To a depraved British major he becomes Clive, an object of desire taught to be a model English schoolboy. Escaping to Bombay he begins a double life as Robert, dutiful foster child to a Scottish missionary couple, and as Pretty Bobby, errand boy and sometime pimp to the tawdry women of the city's most notorious district.But as political unrest begins to stir, Pran finds himself in the company...
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2011-07-04
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Lovande inledning. Jag sveps med i en historia som för tankarna till Salman Rushdies berättarkonst. Tyvärr håller den inte måttet hela vägen. Bitvis känns det som om det går lite på tomgång. Helt ok trots allt.
