Last Jet Engine Laugh (Record no. 49647)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788172234973
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823 JOS
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Joshi, Ruchir
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Last Jet Engine Laugh
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Gurugram, Haryana.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc HarperCollins India
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2001
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 384
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc It is the not-so-distant future and in the belligerent wannabe superpower that is India Para a tomboyish fighter pilot flies sorties against the Pak-Saudi alliance. She has been trained to kill to be a deadly instrument for the military ambitions of the ultra-modern ultra-competitive state. And yet it is less than a hundred years since her smart sarcastic principled grandparents met on a non-violent demonstration against British rule in Ahmedabad falling in love as they were trampled by mounted police. Their only son Paresh grows up to drift through life torn in different directions all at once though he does produce an entirely spirited directed daughter Para. How did India get Para from her grandparents? And what happened to the generation in between of Paresh and his peers? Moving between crowd scenes and midair battles between sexual farce and social embarrassment Joshi maps the arcs made by these four striking characters by the family they make up and by their country across a complex and confused century. Joshis writing is sharp loose fluent and varied. The Last Jet-Engine Laugh is a novel that is jaded and yet principled ribald and yet serious vigorous yet sensitive. It feels authentic considered and moving at all times. It marks the arrival of a writer whose prose is fresh as surprising and as distinctly original as any to come out of India in the last two decades.<br/>
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fiction and Literature
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element General Fiction
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Science Fiction
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Koha item type Book
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