At a glance:
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism, absurdist
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Bombay, India
- Characters: “Ad Magic,”, A boy, A doctor
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Escapes, Asia or Asians, India or East Indian people, Sick persons, Business or business people, Horses, Advertising, Buses, Amnesia, 1990's
- Locales: Asia, India, Bombay, India
The Story
“A White Horse” follows an amnesiac who calls himself “Ad Magic” as he slowly regains his memory within a phantasmagoric landscape of beachfront Bombay, India. The story begins when the tour bus in which Ad Magic is riding crashes into a truck. Ad Magic has had a premonition of the accident, but that does not stop him from hurtling down the center aisle of the bus. A candy on which he was sucking becomes trapped in his throat, and he is saved by the Bahraini tourists with whom he has been traveling. The event is another source of humor to the other...
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