Fathers and Sons, War and Love (A 3-Book Bundle)
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This 80,000-word bundle of three books begins with "Eaten by the Japanese," the World War II memoir of John Baptist Crasta, the father of Richard Crasta, who describes what it was like to rediscover his father and reconcile with him just two years before his father's death. The act of reading and publishing his 87-year-old father's almost forgotten memoir was a process of discovery and reconciliation for the son. "Father, Rebel, Dreamer" consists of fictional and nonfictional reflections, essays, and humor, including a fictional story of "The Terrorist Mother-in-Law." "Letters to My Sons" is the story of a tragic period in which depression, loneliness, and addiction to psychotropic drugs results in mood swings and regrettable emotional outbursts.
This 2019 edition contains powerful new material: the Epilogue, titled "The Second Torture of John Baptist Crasta," tells the story of John Baptist Crasta's sad final days. The other bonus chapters, advance chapters from a book-in-progress, include meditations on Buddhism, fatherhood, and psychiatry, and a story of Indian feudal arrogance and impunity.
Richard Crasta is the author of 12 other books of fiction, nonfiction, satire, humor, biography, and cultural and political critiques.
Richard Crasta
Richard Crasta is the India-born, long-time New York-resident author of "The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel" and 12 other books, with at least 12 more conceived or in progress. "The Revised Kama Sutra," a novel about a young man growing up and making sense of the world and of sex, was described by Kurt Vonnegut as "very funny," and has been published in ten countries and in seven languages.Richard's books include fiction, nonfiction, essays, autobiography, humor, and satire with a political edge: anti-censorship, non-pc, pro-laughter, pro-food, pro-beer, and against fanaticism of any kind. His books have been described as "going where no Indian writer has gone before," and attempt to present an unedited, uncensored voice (James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philip Roth are among the novelists who have inspired him.).Richard was born and grew up in India, joined the Indian Administrative Service, then moved to America to become a writer, and has traveled widely. Though technically still a New York resident, he spends most of his time in Asia working on his books in progress and part-time as a freelance book editor.
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