The Cripple and His Talismans

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• The Cripple and His Talismans

  by Anosh Irani In the five years since Anosh Irani immigrated to Vancouver from Bombay he’s been quite busy. He’s graduated from UBC’s creative writing program, had his first play produced, and now we have his debut novel. The Cripple and His Talisma ... (read full critics)

  quillandquire published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

• The Cripple and His Talismans, by Anosh Irani.

  Raincoast Books, 252 pp, $29.95, hardcover. Anosh Irani's debut novel, a deliciously over-the-top quest with magic-realist filigrees, is studded with acute social observations. Alongside the cuckoo plot and characters and the embarrassment of impossi ... (read full critics)

  straight published on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

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  Funny, intriguing, curious, absurd, magical, dark and - I think - quite good. The end is a little disappointing, though the book does come full circle. (I suppose I wished for a different outcome.)

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• English Books
• Hardcover 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1551926512
• ISBN-13: 9781551926513
• Publisher: Raincoast Books
• Pub date: Feb 01, 2004
• Also available as: Paperback
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書

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