Eunuch Park
Slick, dark, urban stories about India’s dirty soul.
Mehrotra moves away from the standard clichés: saris, spices and colourful bazaars, writing instead about a society in sexual and economic flux. In stories set in big cities and small-towns, slums and dotcoms, Mehrotra writes about cross dressers, prostitutes, murderers and drug addicts with incredible kinetic energy. His characters – vulnerable, always on tenterhooks – are victims of societal and personal conflicts. Mehrotra charts their slide into depression, drink and perversion with empathy and a punk rocker’s eye for sexy ugliness. Relentlessly grim and deeply perverse, this extraordinary collection of the Indian zeitgeist gives us a look into an India none of us really know.
