A Son Of The Circus A Novel

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Publisher's Synopsis

"Usually, the dwarfs kept bringing him back-back to the circus and back to India." - Opening lines of John Irving's A Son of the Circus.

Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen-a fifty-nine-year-old orthopedic 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…

Book information

ISBN: 9780676970463
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Imprint: Vintage Canada
Pub date:
Language: English
Weight: 521g
Height: 209mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 29mm