The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel

The Revised Kama Sutra created waves when it was first published almost twenty yearsago. Now hailed as a classic, Richard Crasta???s gloriously comic and poignant insight intona??ve Third World dreamers of the American Dream is a veritable guide to the Indianexperience of childhood, puberty, sex, colonialism and yearnings not easily fulfilled, atleast not in the original land of the Kama Sutra.Vijay Prabhu is a small-town, middle-class Indian boy negotiating the pains andfrustrations that come with growing up in a culture that celebrates the sterility of Jesuitschools and boys??? boarding houses and has Pillars of Oppression in place to nip in thebud any adolescent longings. To realize his destiny, both spiritual and sexual, Vijayembarks on a journey that will take him to the purported new land of the Kama Sutra??"the land of free sex, greenbacks and Campbell???s Cream of Chicken Soup??"the UnitedStates of America.