My Friend Sancho

Author: Amit Varma

Publisher: Hachette India

ISBN: 8190617311

ISBN-13: 9788190617314, 978-8190617314

Format: Paperback

About this Book:

My Friend, Sancho is a short novel set in contemporary Mumbai. Abir Ganguly, a young journalist on the crime beat, is asked by his editor to write a profile of Mohammad Iqbal, the victim of a police encounter. In the course of writing about another man’s life, his own is transformed. The reason is Iqbal's daughter, Muneeza – or Sancho, as her father used to call her. A jealous talking lizard and a Mumbai cop with a tendency to speak in bullet points and only in English are some of the other characters. Short, very funny but heartbreaking, the novel is a romance that will easily satisfy both the literary and commercial readership. It was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, 2008. Think the dark humour of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron meets the frothiness and sheer delightfulness of Golmaal, and the confidence of our Brave New Bollywood! The writing is confident, fresh and unlike any other in Indian English: ‘(Amit has a) jaunty writing style.