Of Rats and Diplomats Of Rats and Diplomats

Of Rats and Diplomats

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Publisher Description

Sourirada Soutanna, a twice-divorced-soldier-turned-dishwasher-turned diplomat is sent to Ratisan, one of the many countries of the ‘newly freed Fourth World’. Through this seemingly humorous account of his escapades there, the author comments on the world of politics, high-powered multinational and international intrigue. In a series of political and amorous imbroglios, Soutanna discovers that things are rarely what they seem, and that good (does it exist?) rarely triumphs—and finally, that the innate ugliness of the human psyche, if given the proper circumstances, comes to dominate the entire personality, making rats of men.

Colonial rule and the fragmentation of a once-large country into several clone-like ‘independent’ states forms the backdrop to this allegorical tale about countries and peoples, purely fictitious—and yet, all too familiar to the reader.

Ahmed Ali, already a well known Indian writer by 1947, chose to migrate to Pakistan after Independence, and served for some time as a Pakistan diplomat.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2012
December 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
138
Pages
PUBLISHER
Sangam Books (India) Pvt. Ltd,
SELLER
Orient Blackswan Private Limited
SIZE
1.3
MB
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