JOHN IRVING

Traduzido em mais de 30 idiomas, O mundo segundo Garp estabeleceu John Irving como um dos grandes prosadores norte-americanos. Adaptado para o cinema com Robin Williams no papel principal, o romance gira em torno de um talentoso escritor cuja trajetória é marcada, ao mesmo tempo, pelo trágico e pelo inusitado. Com uma galeria de personagens ador...

Born a Parsi in Bombay and educated in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen, an orthopedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Periodically, he returns to India. Once 20 years ago, Dr Darwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, he is reacquainted with the murderer.

While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the reporter her husband's hand, that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is very much alive.