After a hasty escape to Egypt to avoid punishment for his partner,
Lord Greenwich's vast financial crimes, former Mombasa solicitor
and gigolo, Manik Mudigonda, is forced to adapt to a life without
parties and without company in pre-World War I Cairo. Once again,
the rejected Brahmin prince from Benares tries to find a niche for
himself in an alien land that doesn't initially seem to have a
niche for a piebald, red-eyed, bulimic criminal lawyer without much
self confidence, and yet it is in arid, claustrophobic, poorly
governed British Egypt that Manik's professional and personal lives
come into full bloom. Not only does Manik's legal career flourish
against all odds, fighting for his criminal clients' rights to
appeal, coping with embedded corruption, racism, and constant
condescention, but also he succeeds at initiating his first
monogamous relationship, hidden from the disapproving glare of
Egyptian culture. An ode to resiliance in the face of unusual
hardship, the synchronicity of strength and fragility of the human
psyche, and the elusive, inexplicable nature of love, Manik
Mudigonda tries to narrate his life, if for no other reason than to
try to remember.
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