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John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story 'Interior Space'. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.
A Canadian-Indian orthopedic doctor, a Swiss film star, twins separated at birth and an American hippy, among others, come together in India in a search of a serial killer. Farrokh, the doctor, writes a film-script based on a murder 20 years earlier, which stirs up not only the local prostitute community but the serial killer himself, or is it herself? Farrokh's project to genetically track the cause of achondroplastic dwarfism leads him into close contact with the circus dwarfs of Bombay and to 'rescuing' a beggar cripple from Chowpatty beach and a child-prostitute from 'Wetness Cabaret'. Could he have managed it without the contribution from a manic and zealous missionary who is mauled by the transvestite prostitutes in the redlight district and bitten by a rabid chimpanzee at the circus? John Irving is brilliantly clever: the fabulous, fantastic story never slows nor will you lose interest. (Kirkus UK)
