Book description
'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning
again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were
dwarves in the circus.'
Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in
Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old
orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr
Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa.
Now, two decades later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer...
John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in
1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times -
winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He
also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story 'Interior
Space'. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of
Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted
Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award
nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.
