Book description
A comic coming-of-age novel, of an Indian boy with an American Dream, "The Revised Kama Sutra" is also an honest and uninhibited account of how difficult it was for many an Indian male, in the Seventies (and to a smaller extent, even today), to lose his virginity. Inflamed by Western…
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I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Richard Crasta when he lived in New York, and his novel was a welcome surprise at a time when I needed it. Not all fictional immigrant journeys about hope are harrowing life-and-death tales. Some are funny, like Crasta’s coming-of-age American-dream novel. It’s been called the Indian Portnoy’s Complaint. I get that some might have a problem with that. But I felt for Vijay Prabhu, our young protagonist. He yearns to be a writer and sleep with American women—a dream that American TV and movies have promised him, a dream that’s taboo in…
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