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The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat
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Kartik Popat breezes through his teenage years despite having no friends. He has no time for his fellow Indians or immigrants. He wants to earn money without doing any work. He dreams of being a filmmaker, but ends up working at Parliament, racing through the ranks...
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Kartik Popat breezes through his teenage years despite having no friends. He has no time for his fellow Indians or immigrants. He wants to earn money, without doing any work. He dreams of being a filmmaker, but ends up working at Parliament, racing through the ranks of advisors and party hacks.
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Description
Kartik Popat breezes through his teenage years despite having no friends. He has no time for his fellow Indians or immigrants. He wants to earn money without doing any work. He dreams of being a filmmaker, but ends up working at Parliament, racing through the ranks of advisors and party hacks. As the Covid lockdown sets in, he learns that there are more grifts in the world than doing a half-arsed job.
Mr Popat disputes all of the above characterisations.
The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat casts a sidelong glare at the rise of wannabe South Asian demagogues in Western democracies, and imagines a version fit for Aotearoa. The novel lampoons the concept of the model minority, as Kartik makes a mockery of representational politics and reacts to the echo chambers and political movements of the day.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780473725976
Publisher: Lawrence & Gibson
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 October 2024
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Lawrence & Gibson
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 145.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 300
About the Author
Brannavan Gnanalingam is an award-winning novelist based in PΕneke. He is the author ofΒ SprigsΒ (winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel and shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards),Β Sodden DownstreamΒ (also shortlisted at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards), andΒ A Briefcase, Two Pies and a PenthouseΒ (longlisted at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards). He is also a former columnist for the Sunday-Star Times, and winner of a Qantas Media Award (as it was then known) as a film reviewer for The LumiΓ¨re Reader.Β The Life and Opinions of Kartik PopatΒ is his eighth novel.
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