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India, the 1940s: a time of political turmoil and violence; a country on the verge of its tryst with destiny. Ross Monroe is a boxer, a Catholic and an Anglo-Indian. Throughout his youth, Ross is sustained by a single dream: to box his way to Olympic victory -- until a devastating betrayal by an Englishman sends him into exile, and an obsession which will change his life for ever. In present-day England, Owen Monroe, aspiring novelist, is writing the story of his father's life in an attempt to avoid confronting the problems in his own. But family chronicle turns to amateur sleuthing when a chance discovery provides a clue to the whereabouts of his father's long-lost enemy. The quest that follows takes Owen through the secrets of the Monroe past and into a love affair he could never have thought possible...
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Glen Duncan is the critically-acclaimed author of six previous novels, including I, Lucifer and The Bloodstone Papers. He was the first of his Anglo-Indian family to be born in Britain. He lives in South London.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Simply amazing..,
By Simon Kwong (Stockport UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Bloodstone Papers (Paperback)
Really poignant book flipping between the lives of father and son, how though the times have changed, God, destiny and fate plays it's funny game. Emotively written, honest and powerful - pretty much a perfect read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Criminally under-rated,
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This review is from: The Bloodstone Papers (Paperback)
I've now read all of Glen Duncan's books except the latest (with favourite authors I always try to keep at least one in reserve). The only question I have is - why is he not feted along with lesser writers such as Will Self, Martin Amis and others? There's nothing he can't do - hyper-realism, magic realism, surrealism, realism. Every book is different from the last in terms of subject matter, but his underlying concerns remain the same; the search for love in all its forms. I think for most people this book would be a good starting point - the narrative is relatively straightforward, and the structure is pretty simple. Revel in the beauty of the prose, and the Dickensian quality of his understanding of human nature.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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The more things change . . ..,
By Tricky fan "trickyfan" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Bloodstone Papers (Paperback)
Many of Duncan's favourite themes - there's always that lost love, always the edge of kinkiness. Some of the most memorable and beautiful phrases in his career - Pasha 'sails his archipelago of kips', and his libidinal flag will still flutter in the right oestral breeze (or something like that). Vividly visual, and so observant, so clever ('a Radio 4-style self-congratulatory side-stepping of the obvious'). Excellent as always in conveying that peculiar ease of a good friendship. Also on the way our own egos and libidos distort our perceptions of cities, deities, activities, objects, motivating us in strange and exhilarating ways which are then lost, in a moment's Gestalt switch, forever. Anything pursued to escape the self leads back to the self. A gimlet, but forgiving, eye cast upon his parents: the way siblings all drift from mother because they have all irrevocably realised she cultivates an ugly self-pity, an apathy. The 'flotsam' of family memories. And, perhaps most importantly, being Anglo-Indian: you can really begin to flesh out that niche, sense all the boundaries of that difference. As usual - but differently - it's bleddy good.
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