THE TIME OF THE PEACOCK (HB)

It is the book launch of Best in Show: The Peacock Book of Indo–Anglian Fiction andJohn Nair managing editor Peacock India is throwing the grandest party of his life.The whole of literary India is in attendance. All the literary stars are here: the Sethsthe Roys the Chaudharis among many many others. And into this haloed gatheringwalks Nair’s old friend Ritwik Ray the slightly off-kilter bard of Patna with a newnovel in hand: Godse Chowk. Mayhem ensues.Set in the goldfish bowl of the New Delhi publishing world The Time of the Peacockprovides an accurate yet compassionate reading of the Indian literary scene—bothbhasha and metropolitan.