![]() ![]() ![]() That story begins in the late 1980s when Vina perishes in an earthquake (one of this novel’s recurring symbolic events) backtracks to describe, in luscious comic detail, Vina’s violence-haunted American childhood, Orpheus’s youth among a prominent Parsi family ruled by his Anglophilic scholar-athlete father “Sir Darius” (a magnificently drawn character) and shaped by the contrary fates of two sets of twin sons (one of whom becomes a notorious mass murderer), and Rai’s own confused relations with them both. “Rai” Merchant relates in a stunningly flexible, observant, and wry narrative voice the story of the volatile enduring love binding two Indian-born musical superstars: coloratura rock singer Vina Apsara and composer-performer Orpheus Cama. Photojournalist (and “event junkie”) Umeed, a.k.a. The blessings and curses of fame, the seismic character of sociopolitical change, and the dream of transcending our earthbound natures are the commanding-though scarcely only-themes of this brilliant epic reimagining of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, by the internationally acclaimed and reviled author of The Satanic Verses. ![]()
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