White Man Falling

by Mike Stocks

Book Overview

This winner of the Goss First Novel Award 2006 is a tale of domestic catastrophe, accidental crime-busting, deluded matchmaking, and mystical absurdity set in a small town in South India. Police... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184688036X
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.9" x 1.1" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

An emotional rollercoaster

I picked this book up from the library by chance after reading the synopsis on the back cover. Though nowhere near as long as Vikram Seth's A Beautiful Boy, I had the same experience of feeling like I had developed a relationship with the characters, albeit not as deeply as with Vikram's book. So although I didn't want it to end, I didn't feel the same sense of loss that I did when I finished A Beautiful Boy. Although I found myself laughing out aloud as I read this sometimes it was almost laughter mixed with tears. I could hardly put it down but I felt anxious picking it up. For those of you who have watched the British television comedy series Faulty Towers it was a similar experience - hilarious and at the sometimes embarrassing at the same time Even though this book is set in India and explores life through a world view that might appear naive from a modern perspective, for me it plumed some of the depths of what it is to be human and feel worthwhile and the many ways we attempt to achieve it. A major theme in this book is the psychological concept of projection and I realise that I am projecting when I write this. We create our own hells through thinking. Congratulations to the author - its got me thinking about how to stop thinking.