Sometime in the 1970s, in a small town called Mogga in southern India, a boy grew up surrounded by over 30,000 books.
Apart from this highly unusual circumstance, the town was not very different from other mofussil towns, in its character. Or for that matter, the assortment of simple-minded characters it held: Tempo Tony, Chikkanna, Percentage Ravi, New News Nagaraj, ISV … not to mention their own mystery-busting detective called Herculees Pirate.
Who was the man who had built this incredible collection of literature? Who was the boy fortunate enough to grow up in its midst? Why was he called Cylinder?
An extraordinary tale of some of the greatest writers in history, in the lives of ordinary people in an ordinary town.
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2024
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Anand Suspi published his debut novel in 2016, his childhood autobiography called `Half Pants Full Pants’. It received critical acclaim with several readers comparing it to Malgudi Days.
The book was adapted into a web series and released on Amazon Prime Video in 2022.
Phew! One helluva story. This looks like the author's tribute to all the literary giants across the ages. It is also a tribute to his childhood and ours. Having read Half Pants Full Pants, I was eagerly waiting for the authors' second book. I was also very curious about what the author would write next. Well, it surprised me in many ways and yet kept me in familiar territory. It does seem that the author has fictionalised his hometown by calling it Mogga instead of Shimoga. The physical place...