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A Son of the Circus (1994) is a novel by American writer John Irving. It was a return to his first publisher, Random House, under whose imprint Irving's first three novels appeared.
- John Irving
- 1994
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.
Set in contemporary India, John Irving’s work of literary fiction A Son of the Circus (1994) follows Dr. Daruwalla, an orthopedic surgeon who travels back home to his native Bombay to study achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism.
Summary. PDF Cite Share. John Irving’s sweeping novel A Son of the Circus tells many stories. The central character, around whom the colorful cast is centered, is a doctor researching...
Jan 1, 1994 · 20,661 ratings786 reviews. A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving's characters transcend nationality.
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A Son of the Circus is concerned with Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, a 60-year-old orthopedic doctor born in Bombay, now a Canadian citizen, who periodically visits his home town. Dr. Daruwalla’s unusual interests—seeking a genetic marker for dwarfism, and secretly writing screenplays for the popular Inspector Dhar movies—embroil him and his ...
