Heard about this from a friend. Pretty fast read. Pulp fiction - completely implausible plot, with the first person narrative relying on scene changes, danger and typical thriller genre plotmaking to keep you turning the pages over.
Monk Who Sold His Ferrari meets The Shawshank Redemption.
The protagonist lives by the mantra of altruism, which while worthy in itself, leads him to lose and arm and approach death several times.
Karan Bajaj is being hailed as the 'thinking man's Chetan Bhagat'. Not sure if the moniker sticks, or if another is required. Karan's writing is certainly better, but the theme of repeated altruism leading to repeated pathos is disturbing and keeps your allegory focussed on the 'pulp' in the fiction.
That said Harper Collins printed 100K copies, so there must be a market for these disturbing stories.
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