Rahul Bhattacharya presents The Sly Company Of People Who Care.
 
Bhattacharya Rahul (c) Sonali Bhattacharya
 
 
 Tuesday 31st May, 7pm Ikon Gallery
Oozells Square, Brindleyplace
Birmingham B1 2HS


FREE-book a place via Ikon: 0121 248 0708

 

A truly remarkable and original novel of self-discovery, set in a country of great contrasts.

 

 

A twenty-six-year-old Indian journalist decides to give up his job and travel to a country where he can ‘escape the deadness of his life’.So he arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerising beauty. From the beautiful, decaying wooden houses of Georgetown, through coastal sugarcane plantations, to the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond-hunters, he is absorbed by the fantastic possibilities of this place where the descendants of the enslaved and the indentured have made a new world.
  
Rahul Bhattacharya has created a story that follows the shape and rhythms of life, not art. Part picaresque, in part a meditation, The Sly Company of People Who Care captures the heady adventures of travel, the overheated restlessness of youth, and the paradoxes of searching for life’s meaning in the escape from home.

 

Rahul is the author of Pundits from Pakistan, a work of reportage on the cricket competition between India and Pakistan. He lives in New Delhi, India.
  
Join Rahul Bhattacharya at the Ikon Gallery, The Sly Company of People Who Care will be available to buy and drinks will be served. 

       
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