6. All About H Hatterr

G V Desani (1948)

The Telegraph: "It's the glorious mash-up of English and Indian colloquialism that makes this book, about the son of a European merchant and a Malayan lady, such a wild, whimsical delight. Anthony Burgess admired its 'creative chaos that grumbles at the restraining banks'."

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