Poona Company
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The illustration on our cover is from The Working Horse by Geoffrey Patterson, published by Andre Deutsch, 0 233 97786 4, £4.95. We are grateful to Andre Deutsch for help in using this illustration.
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At 12, the young Farrukh begins to explore his neighbourhood. The Sarbatwalla Chowk. Each of the nine episodes stands on its own as a rich and funny chunk of Poona life. The book also reads as a continuum, through adolescence and first job to Dhondy's scholarship to England. Characters of the Chowk cafés and businesses, fellow schoolboys and students, backyard inventors, Parsee, Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh are made vivid gossip, rivalries, intrigues, losses, love affairs, ambitions - all the complexities of a community - are lovingly created in a collection to treasure and revisit.