Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Darwalla is a Canadian citizen living in Toronto. Twenty years ago he was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now 20 years later, the doctor becomes reacquainted with the murderer.
Wanneer een zwarte vrouw rond 1874 onderdak verleent aan een onbekende jonge vrouw, verandert haar leven en dat van anderen door herinneringen die soms tegenstrijdig zijn met de werkelijkheid.
Wanneer een zwarte vrouw rond 1874 onderdak verleent aan een onbekende jonge vrouw, verandert haar leven en dat van anderen door herinneringen die soms tegenstrijdig zijn met de werkelijkheid.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs - two of which (including an account of Mr. Irving's dinner with President Reagan at the White House) are new to American readers. The newest and longest of the memoirs, "The Imaginary Girlfriend", is the core of this collection. The middle section of the book is fiction. In 28 years, John Irving has written eight novels - but only a half-dozen short stories that he considers "finished"; they are all published here. In the third and final section are three essays of appreciation: one on Gunter Grass, two on Charles Dickens. To each of the 12 pieces, which cover 30 years of writing, Mr. Irving has contributed his Author's Notes.