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A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving's characters transcend nationality. They are misfits—coming from everywhere, belonging nowhere. Set almost entirely in India, this is John Irving's most ambitious novel and a major publishing event.
Publication Year: 1999
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0Of the John Irving novels I’ve read, this is the first misfire. Its characters struck me as caricatures, it’s plot struck me as mechanical and unfinished, and its tone struck me as condescending toward its people and milieu. I think of Irving as a warm, humanistic writer. “A Son of the Circus,” however, left me cold.
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