Tourism
  • Published: 1 May 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099493044
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $26.99

Tourism

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A refeshing, unflinching and politically incorrect take on modern Britain from an extraordinary Sikh writer.

Bhupinder 'Puppy' Singh Johal - handsome, rakish and spiritually disenfranchised - has left behind the immigrant neighbourhood of Southall to mix with the elite of metropolitan London society. Sexually ambitious, he is intent on living life to the full, regardless of the consequences.

When sloaney rich-girl Sophie, falls for him, he grabs the chance to escape his past and pursue the woman of his dreams, the voluptuous sophisticate Sarupa, who happens to be engaged to Sophie's cousin. Using whatever and whoever he can, Puppy explores the grit and glamour of a city seething with the possibilities and politics of money, race and sex: an incendiary cocktail that explodes, changing him and those closest to him forever...
  • Published: 1 May 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099493044
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Nirpal Dhaliwal Singh

Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal is a freelance journalist, his writing has appeared in The Times, the Guardian and the Evening Standard. He studied English and American literature at Nottingham University before starting a career in broadcasting with the BBC, which he left in 2000 to become a full-time writer. Tourism is his first novel.

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Praise for Tourism

The best debut novel I have ever read... sexy, seriously shocking and touched with genius

Julie Burchill

Completely scabrous and immensely readable

Evening Standard

One of my favourite books of the year...This is going to be huge...I loved it

Sarah Broadhurst, The Bookseller

An enjoyably bumptious coming of age novel

Richard Godwin, Literary Review

A bracing debut that sizzles with sexual and racial tension... Brilliant... A terrific book

Daily Telegraph

Accomplished... Witty, insightful... Beautifully written

The Times

Brilliantly paced, sexy and hilarious... An awesome bebut... I can't wait for his second novel

Big Issue

Angry, moving, urgent

Times Literary Supplement

Fresh, funny and convincing

Mail on Sunday

Tolerant, funny and real, [the narrator] ducks and dives hedonistically, lazily, gunning out x-ray observations about masculinity, models and "the magic of miscegenation" that would have had Oscar Wilde licking his lips

Vogue