Ravan & Eddie

Kiran Nagarkar

Nagarkar's RAVAN AND EDDIE is a wonderful work of art brilliantly presenting the Indian urban chawl-life. The locale is Mumbai (Bombay) and the chief characters are Ravan, a Hindu boy, and Eddie, a Catholic boy. The story pivots around the lives of both, being neighbours in the CWD chawl at Byculla, Mumbai.

The theme of this novel of mulitple narrators is the conflict of two diverse cultures being made to blend together. The little incidents in their lives are presented in a hilarious manner (though some episodes are far-fetching), but draws the reader's attention to the multi-cultural Indian civilization" Copiado da Net