Manik Mudigonda was born into (and subsequently rejected from) a
highly scrupulous Brahmin family in India's holiest city, Benares.
Now, in the heady days leading up to World War I, he is a lonely
colonial solicitor in Mombasa, Kenya's most multicultural,
metropolitan city. He possesses numerous physical deformities,
including severe, patchy depigmentation all over his body, one
bright red eye, a wiry shock of waist-length white hair, and
hundreds of smallpox scars. He's a complete outsider with limited
coping mechanisms, and he finds comfort in primarily destructive
ways-alcoholism, bulimia, and committing adultery with married
women. Manik, it is safe to say, is not your typical Casanova. Yet
despite it all, his greatest joy is making women happy, and he
falls deeply in love, again and again. Manik suffers without end,
convinced that he is utterly unable to find someone to truly love
him in return. "Memories of a Mombasa Gigolo" is a complex
character study written in journal style that not only provides a
rich picture of cosmopolitan British colonial Africa in the early
1900s, but also explores the most intimate realm of human emotion
and sexuality while painting a portrait of one of the earliest and
most fascinating melting-pot cities.
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