A son of the circus
By: John Irving.
Edition: 1st trade ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 633
Subjects: India -- Fiction
Description: An Indian-Canadian doctor returns to Bombay to seek a cure for a disease which afflicts circus dwarfs and is caught up in a serial killing of prostitutes. The action is interspersed with commentary on the lot of social misfits: prostitutes, dwarfs, himself--the doctor regarding himself a foreigner in both India and Canada.