Reviews

"White Man Falling is that rare and wondrous thing - a perfectly realised serious comic novel. That it is also a first novel makes it all the more extraordinary."
Sarah Dunant

It is the precision and originality of Mike Stocks's prose
that makes this tragicomedy of Indian
manners hard to put down and a joy to pick up
Mark Amory, The Spectator

A warm-hearted comedy… Stocks’s poetic background… manifests itself in beautiful turns of phrase… and in the interweaving of Indian English throughout the text. There is a vogue in contemporary fiction for leaping between characters and timeframes like a flea seeking a tasty host. White Man Falling is a reminder that a single location and perspective, and linear chronology, can be deeply satisfying. The Times 

The writing is witty and engaging… an entertaining read, with all the ingredients of a comedy of errors -- confusion, deluded matchmaking, mystical absurdity. There are underlying metaphors, but the book is essentially a satire of the search for meaning in the meaningless. The New Statesman

'A witty and occasionally lyrical novel.'
The Melbourne Age

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WHITE MAN FALLING, by Mike Stocks
ISBN: 1-84688-009-2, Hardback, £12.99, 336 pp.
Publication Date: September 2006

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