The joy has returned to America, so the media tells us, and it’s largely true: a laughing black woman with immense poise and self-confidence and grace has charmed a majority of Americans. Time for joy in literature:
“Any book that can force me, against my will, to guffaw out loud while reading it in public places is to be treasured. “The Revised Kama Sutra” was as rife with inventive comic imagery as “A Confederacy of Dunces,” as insightful and subtly searing as “Catcher in the Rye,” and as sensuous as the Kama Sutra itself. Although I’ve never been to India, I felt I experienced the lively streets, people, colors, aromas, shapes and sounds of the cities mentioned in the book right along with the author. It’s a cliche to say, “you’ll laugh, you’ll cry!,” but that truly is the case with this book–I recommend it, you’ll savor each page.–“A Customer”
A sensation and brief Indian bestseller, Impressing the Whites has resonated with both nonwhite and white readers for its part-comic Fourteen Commandments of Indian and Nonwhite Male Success, Booker Prize tips, and soulful analysis of ethnic shame, spiritual colonialism, and how to answer your son when he asks you if he is black. This latest edition also discusses Barack Obama and the White Tiger.
Eaten by the Japanese is the only surviving World War II memoir by an Indian Prisoner of War of the Japanese among the thousands of Indian soldiers in the British Indian Army who were shipped by their Japanese captors in “torture ships” to New Britain (now part of Papua New Guinea) and Palau, and how only a fraction of them, including the author, survived.
Richard Crasta is the author of the bestselling and widely published novel The Revised Kama Sutra, and more than fourteen other books. His latest short book is titled What We All Need: A Prescription for World Peace and Happiness. Along with it, he has also released a short book titled What the Children Saw –a story of Indian feudalism, divorce, and fatherhood, and the questions we need to ask ourselves about our children.
In the last few years, he has been spending most of his time in Cambodia, where he is working on five books in progress and fighting the Parkinson’s Disease he has been suffering from for the last five years.
Why Cambodia? Because it is the only non-puritanical country that he can afford to live in, and visa extensions are easy; also, he cannot bear the North American winters.
The Revised Kama Sutra could be the story of your life . . . Its approach to sex is warm, sensitive and very, very funny.
Indefatigable good humor transcends the personal to stand for the contradictions of India as a whole. Considerable charm.
[Eaten by the Japanese is] a tale of unmitigated horror. A handsome tribute to a man of courage and rectitude.
I salute you as a full-fledged colleague. Yes, I am reading you and finding you very funny!
Absolutely spectacular . . .a hilarious novel, full of wit and glib language, with a whole lot of compassion thrown in.
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