Country India Publication date 28 February 2006 Pages 432 pp Originally published 28 February 2006 Genre Black comedy Cover artist Sarnath Banerjee | Language English Media type Print (Paperback) ISBN 0-670-05862-9 Publisher Viking Press | |
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Preceded by The Mammaries of the Welfare State Similar The Mammaries of the Wel, The Last Burden, English - August, The Washingtonienne, English - August: Screenplay | ||
Weight Loss is a 2006 novel by Upamanyu Chatterjee.
Plot summary
Weight Loss is about the strange life (from age 11 to age 37) of a sexual deviant named Bhola, whose attitude to most of the people around him depends on their lust worthiness. Bhola’s tastes are not, to put it mildly, conventional. Sex is a form of depravity for him and he has fetishes about everyone from teachers to roadside sadhus to servants; he progresses from fantasizing about the portly family cook Gopinath to falling “madly in love” with a vegetable vendor and her husband. This last obsession spans the entire length of the book and most of Bhola’s life – he even ends up teaching at a college in an obscure hill-station hundreds of miles from his home because he wants to be near the couple. At various other stages in his life he gets expelled from school for defecating in a teacher’s office, participates in an inexpertly carried out circumcision (one of the book’s many manifestations of the “weight loss” motif). visit http://tinyurl.com/2unsh