In the case of the other two though, Bhattacharya heads off on a tangent. By the end of this page, you may realise which… One of these three presumptions is correct. The location, right next-door to Venezuela, naturally leads one to the assumption that this will be a Hispanic-influenced novel, perhaps in the vein of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or the edgier Roberto Bolaño, complete with quasi-mystical romanticism, heavy on the symbolism and possibly borderline incomprehensible. He chooses, as the venue for this meandering, Guyana, in the north-eastern corner of South America. Rahul Bhattacharya’s first novel, The Sly Company of People Who Care, opens with an anonymous narrator, a former cricket journalist from India who decides to take a year off from his “real” life to wander about, to be “a slow ramblin’ stranger”.
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