Rahul Bhattacharya’s debut novel, The Sly Company of People Who Care, won the Ondaatje prize for 2012.
Nominated for a number of other prizes as well, the novel tells the tale of a 26-year-old Indian journalist who gives up his job to live in Guyana, where he can “escape the deadness of life”. There, he falls in love not only with the country, but also with a woman.
Bhattacharya says that Guyana itself was the inspiration for the novel. “Usually the question of what inspired a
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