Canadian praise for The Song of Kahunsha

A 2007 CBC Radio CANADA READS selection nominee

“[Irani’s] melodies in The Song of Kahunsha are at once bright and melancholic, his characters and senses as sharp as tusks and his plot as lithe as children running.”                                                                                        — The National Post
   
“[Irani] rewrites Dickens’ Oliver Twist with his native Bombay replacing nineteenth-century London. . . Pure storytelling.”            — The Toronto Star
   
“Evocative and colourful.”         —The London Free Press
   
“[Chamdi’s] relentless struggle to survive makes him one of this year’s most unforgettable heroes.” —Edmonton Journal
   
“A gripping and compassionate novel that will resonate long after readers have completed it. . . calls to mind Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance.”—Winnipeg Free Press
   
“Beautiful. . . [It] vindicates the fragile but triumphant scope of childhood imagination with touching grace.”       —The Globe and Mail