In the first chapter of this novel, the protagonists are harassed by a comb-seller on a train to an unnamed coastal city.
In the first chapter of this novel, the protagonists are harassed by a comb-seller on a train to an unnamed coastal city. The train is stopped after several people are found on the tracks attempting suicide in response to the national emergency. Ishvar Doji and his nephew Omprakash flee their lower- caste origins and join the naïve college student Maneck Kolah in boarding with the widowed seamstress Dina Dalal. For 10 points-- name this novel by Rohinton Mistry about the aftermath of a state of emergency called by Indira Gandhi.
In the first chapter of this novel, the protagonists are harassed by a comb-seller on a train to an unnamed coastal city.
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