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Irvings turbulente Geschichte spielt zum größten Teil in Bombay. Held ist der pummelige Arzt Dr. Daruwalla, dessen Hauptaufgabe es ist, Blutproben von Zwergen in indischen Zirkussen zu untersuchen, um das "Zwergen-Gen" zu lokalisieren. Seine Freizeit verbringt er vorzugsweise im Golfclub. Dort hat er auch Zeit darüber nachzudenken, wer das Clubmitglied auf dem Gewissen hat, das im Gebüsch beim neunten Loch tot entdeckt wurde. Als weitere handelnde Personen treten auf: ein Hippie-Mädchen aus Iowa, das einen indischen Polizeikommissar liebt, ein brutaler Transsexueller, ein deutscher Drogenhändler, ein gefeierter Filmstar nebst seinem jesuitischen Zwilling, eine kastrierte Transvestiten-Prostituierte.

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A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.

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´The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus.´Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, two decades later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer...

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"Daruwalla is another iconic Irving figure... Irving handles this incarnadine combination of farce and horror with high speed skill, creating a compulsively readable book" Guardian

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John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story ´Interior Space´. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.

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