Overview of Cambridge Company Book

Witty, humorous and often startlingly insightful, this is the coming-of-age tale of a young student from small-town Poona adjusting to life in Cambridge. The book evokes a vivid picture of life in London during the Swinging Sixties. Will appeal to readers of Dhondy s previous works, Poona Company and London Company, as well as of general literary fiction. The author is a veteran writer, playwright and activist who has written several popular works of fiction and screenplays for movies such as Bandit Queen and Mangal Pandey.This was egalitarian England. I would neither need nor have servants here. Everyone I met in India mentioned this fact as if it were the most significant feature of Western civilization and modernity. When young Farrukh arrives at Cambridge from small-town Poona, he s resigned to having no servants to wait on him, wearing tweed and studying hard, but what he encounters is an England that no one has prepared him for. This is the sixties, when Britain is in the throes of the Mods and the Rockers and the sexual revolution, along with endless protest demonstrations, is in full swing. Farrukh quickly realizes that he has a lot to learn: from figuring out how to load the washing machine to coming to terms with a long-distance relationship; from expounding on religion and sexuality to discovering his love for theatre. Told in a series of vividly detailed vignettes, Cambridge Company is a witty and charming account of collegiate life that captures the exuberance and the idealism of youth and is a perfect accompaniment to Poona Company and London Company..

• Book Type :

Contemporary Fiction

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

9350090600

• Cambridge Company Published On :

24 Oct 2016

• Resource:

Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Fiction Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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