Author: Ameena Meer
Title: Bombay Talkie
Description: Serpent's Tail 1998 Paperback, 280pp. Journalist Meer's first novel is as gaudy and melodramatic as the movies she evokes in her title. American-born Sabah's parents convince her to visit India, and she is thrust into the unravelling lives of an American-born friend, now married to an Indian and that of her famous movie star uncle and his family. The story is woven from the characters' inner monologues and a narrative that describes the seamiest excesses of wealth, poverty, sexism, racial consciousness, deception and hypocrisy with the pace and detachment of a journalist. Foxing; cover creased. (ISBN: 9781852427078). Fair.

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