Pdf eBook. Anurag Kumar Anurag Electrical Communication. He was educated at the Scindia School Gwalior, India. His experiences of cultural shocks and immigrant experience will make it difficult for you to put this book down. Download and keep this book for Free with a 30 day Trial. The Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur is the story of a naive Indian boy in the United States of America who finds everything bewildering, but happens to get influenced and later finds himself enjoying and getting absorbed in the American culture.
The novel was adapted into a movie by Tri-Color Communications in The Inscrutable Americans Pdf. He meets Anurat, who welcomes him at the airport and tries to introduce him to the American society and culture.
Within this mode, one issue dominates. He feels lonely and depressed and starts missing his parents and friends in India and also Randy. A humourous insight of Indian students studying in the USA ,it is not.
Feb 18, Loveena Mathews rated it it was ok. Member Reviews Jun 26, A bit unfocused and rushed, with characters pushed aside in quick succession and then occasionally retrieved if convenientThe Inscrutable Americans is somewhat undeveloped as a novel.
Evidently, The Inscrutable Americans has mighty strong character profiles; Randy and Gopal leading the lot. A fanatical cricket player, he also plays tennis and enjoys travelling. Nov 21, Sneha rated it liked it Recommends it for: First half was brilliant. And, to his credit, he achieves good comedic effect by having Gopal long fail to lose his virginity, despite the many apparently easy opportunities.
Eventually, this sentiment led me to join goodreads. The boy in the story has seen no struggle in his life except in achieving his single most important goal — sexual intercourse.
My girl friend, an Indian Immigrant was the one that turned me on to this book. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.
We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. For one long year, he attempts to get laid, and fails. He comes A friend gave this book as a gift a couple of years ago. He comes close a few times, but doesn't drive it home because he vomits before the act or is simply too shy.
He even goes to a massage parlour and makes unwanted sexual advances repeatedly even after being warned. Every chapter of the book is a short story of how this sexually desperate lad fails to find sex.
One can read the chapters in a random order because a chapter adds nothing to its following ones. To make it worse, the book is highly ignorant of the Indian socio-economics as this chap tries to convince people in the US that India has no starvation. It also argues that India has equality amongst all castes with a weird logic that Gandhi became a successful leader despite not being from the highest of castes. The boy in the story has seen no struggle in his life except in achieving his single most important goal - sexual intercourse.
That is all! I have wasted precious hours reading this book. I hope not many people do. And I hope no one thinks this to be a gift-worthy material, the way my friend did. I bought this book last week and started reading it without thinking much. Set during the s, the period when Indians had started exploring and settling down in the US of A, the story is about a small town Indian boy who sets his foot in the land of Columbus for his higher studies, mind you back then.
The difference in culture, lifestyle, language and many other issues that the boy copes with in a new country is what forms the plot of the story. Humour is a serious thing. Stereotyping people from any country- be it Indians, Americans, French, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese or Mexicans and writing about them has far reaching consequences. The world reads it. Call it bad English, one can accept it. On the other hand everything about the Americans is written with such shortsightedness.
Thankfully my sense of humour pulled through this ordeal. Jul 02, Asra Ghouse rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: People who understand humor. Shelves: indian-fiction , must-reads. You see there aren't many books that make me laugh out loud. The Inscrutable Americans was the first book that could do this. I first read this book at the age of Adolescent I was, I could relate to the transitory period in Gopal's the protagonist life. There he battles the usual issues faced by an Indian living in the US- racism, sexual discomforts, food, etc.
As I always say, cliched though the concept, it is the characters that make a story. Evidently, The Inscrutable Americans has mighty strong character profiles; Randy and Gopal leading the lot. The book has an excellent pace that builds up gradually, reaching a glorious high towards the climax pun intended- those who've read this will know what I'm referring to - view spoiler [Gopal's first sex on the plane during his journey back India hide spoiler ] One of the lines that I can never forget from this book is "Are red haired girls, red all over?
Cliched or not, you're bound to enjoy this book! Aug 14, Deeksha Kapoor rated it really liked it. I remember reading this book over 4 yrs ago sitting on a bus.
I laughed so hard the old man sitting next to me actually had to get up and change his seat because he thought I was mad!! There are tons of books that have cropped up recently dealing with the lives of the ABCD's living abroad as well as the adventures and the misadventures of fresh of the boat people who traveled from remote cities in India to foreign lands; but since this is the first one I read - I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Jun 15, Anusha M rated it it was ok. The pace and humour was amazing to start with, but the narration went on to be a drone by the end of the book. Sometimes funny, sometimes sexist.
Though it was funny at times, but I didn't like the stereotype presentation of American women. I personally have talked many of them and they are for from just sex-hungry folks, as portrayed in this novel. Besides, the protagonist is an asshole, any educated small-town Indian boy could do way better than this moron.
I was a teenager growing up in India when I read this book. I found it incredibly funny and enjoyed it so much that I re-read it atleast once. Infact I recall that for a while I had the book sitting on my bedside and I would go to the funniest parts and chuckle myself to sleep.
Gopal has had no exposure to Western culture and many things in modern life, which seemed pr I was a teenager growing up in India when I read this book. Gopal has had no exposure to Western culture and many things in modern life, which seemed preposterous to me, even then. But again, I grew up in a city with full awareness of things that Gopal was ignorant of.
Even so, his reaction to the new experiences seem ludicrous - but the expression of this silliness is what makes the book a total laugh riot. Gopal goes to America to study and is desperate to lose his virginity there. His terrible English and innocence in the American way of life doesn't stand in the way of him making friends. One such friend, the other main character, is a young American guy with ample experience in "lady affairs". His name is Randy - the meaning of the word in Hindi and Gopal's handling of his new friend's name is itself hilarious.
Randy takes it upon himself to help the cause of Gopal's raging hormones. The letters that Gopal writes to his family back home add to much of the humor in the book. There is no point or message in the story - it's not meant to seriously portray the cultural shock that young Foreign students face in America. So don't try to analyze this book from that angle. As for humor, yes there's some slapstick humor. But at no point, does it degenerate into an annoyance. It's funny. Today, the world is a much smaller place, and India has changed considerably since the book was written; perhaps many of the passages may not be as funny or the reader may not relate to them but again, I couldn't relate to them at a personal level even then, or when I ended up in the States later for higher studies.
I'm not sure if I'd enjoy the book now as much as I did then. I'd go as far as to call it a classic written by an Indian author for its cult value - it was a popular comedy that we urban Indians grew up on. Dec 03, Lex Pitra rated it liked it.
Personally I thought this book was very funny. However, there were scenes in particular that were a bit 'rape-y' for my taste and many of the female characters where portrayed as sex-obsessed or were actually prostitutes. I couldn't comfortably say I thought this book was really funny knowing there Personally I thought this book was very funny.
I couldn't comfortably say I thought this book was really funny knowing there was a girl in the woods waiting for young men to have their turn with her. It was such an absurd scene that seemed like the author was maybe trying to get at something else, but never really took the opportunity to say that this was wrong or that it isn't funny and that maybe there is something Opal can see here and learn here.
Opal sees the situation and before anything else he just kind of blinks it away. All other comical aspects of it come from immature comments and jokes that play on stereotypes. Even though now, on reflection, I find it offensive I will admit I bought it after reading because I thought it was funny and it lifted my spirits during finals week.
So, I don't exactly recommend it, but if you did read it, it wouldn't be the biggest waste of your time. Just be aware of it's social impurity and maybe read Passage to India after as some kind of contrast to it's taste. It is a short book and a quick read, go wild. Mar 07, Carolyn rated it liked it Shelves: humor , library-books. A cute, charming story about Gopal, a young man from a small town in India, who comes to the U.
It's usually amusing and sometimes hilarious as he tries to understand American customs and idioms with the help of his young mentor, Randy, a fellow student assigned by the dean to show him around.
Gopal at first assumes Randy is a description rather than a name, and he isn't far wrong. Part of Gopal's preparation includes a selection of A A cute, charming story about Gopal, a young man from a small town in India, who comes to the U.
Part of Gopal's preparation includes a selection of American pornography, and Randy makes it his goal to help Gopal discard his virginity. The edition I read was the 43rd printing, which says something about the book's popularity. Jan 07, Anchit rated it did not like it. Extremely horrible grammar throughout the book.
How could someone publish this piece of shit without getting at least the grammar corrected. Here are some of the sentences: "Then I'm going to long bathroom" "Then I am sleeping long time after London and when I'm waking it is like we are flying over sea of lights" "Still please tell her I have done needful".
How can someone with such a horrible English put that "inscrutable" word in the title? Sounds like someone else did it for him. But how did a re Extremely horrible grammar throughout the book. But how did a real publication house agree to publish this piece of garbage, where every page is jam-packed with half-sentences and horrible grammar, is puzzling.
Oct 25, Himanshu rated it did not like it Recommends it for: tenth graders. Oh how I hoped this book by an Indian author would capture the trials and tribulations of a foreigner in USA.
It attempted to, but sucked! Besides badly-formed sentences and an even badderly-formed story, it ends up being a ridiculous narrative filled with crude sexual references. Boo Hiss! I would be happy to give this book away for FREE! As long as someone can give me money for free in return. Apr 21, Deepak rated it it was amazing Shelves: hillarious. Like most students the character Gopal also goes through culture shocks and its very well articulated by the author.
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