I saw this author speak at the University of Chicago in 2006 or 2007. He was pompous and arrogant about Americans and seemed annoyed about having this book republished (It was a major best seller in the UK throughout the 1980’s). However, the room was full of U of C literature students posturing and preening to be noticed. So, I can’t entirely hold some of his attitude against him.
This book is funny. I remember that much. Really captured the steamy, useless exasperation of bureaucracy in the jungle. I have thought of this book often as I read other titles about India. I always like a book with a pot-smoking, masturbating narrator.
Wish I remembered more, but its a book I’ve recommended to friends and family.
