an extremely funny novel about two largerthanlife heroes and their bawdy rabelaisian adventures in postcolonial urban india ravan and eddie is now considered a masterpiece of indian writing in english this is the hilarious story of ravan a maratha hindu and eddie a roman catholic growing up to adolescence on the different floors of the cwd chawl no 17 in bombay in the decade immediately after independence first published in 1994 this cult classic is now being reissued for a new generation of readers about the author kiran nagarkar was born in mumbai he wrote his first book in a language in which he had never written beforemarathi the book was called saat sakkam trechalis recently translated as seven sixes are fortythree and is considered a landmark in postindependence indian literature he is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novels cuckold which won the sahitya akademi award gods little soldier and the extras the sequel to ravan and eddie