A Son of the Circus
Author: John Irving
Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen – a fifty-nine-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 reaquainted with the murderer…….Read More
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