What happens when Europe is colonised by India in the not too distant future? Welcome to Scandinavistan, where a beef-eating Swedish minority is ghettoized by cow-worshipping desis and IAS officers run what is now the Asiatic Union. Watching over its crime-stricken harbour town Gautampuri (née Gothenburg) is Herman Barsk, bumbling public intelligence officer and loser extraordinaire, not-so-hot on the heels of a cannibalistic serial killer last spotted at the Tandoori Moose but fast in pursuit of his lady Kumkum.We bring you an early look at Zac O’Yeah’s hilarious comic debut, a darkly disgusting satirical thriller.
Excerpted with permission from Once Upon a Time in Scandinavistan by Zac O’Yeah (forthcoming from Hachette Books India, August 2010)
BESIDE THE ROAD the river flowed past, murky and greyish, like an unflushed toilet.
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