In the latest instalment of Lins adventures in Bombay, after he returns from the smoking session with the gangster fellow of Bombay he falls asleep only to be awakened hours later by Johnny Cigar. One of the people in the slum community had been slashed with a sword in a gang fight and as Johnny says he is bleeding very swiftly. So Lin as doctor must rise and stitch this man up, a skill he says he learned in prison from stitching stab wounds after riots. He gave the young man 26 stitches in the middle of the night and collapsed back on his bed to fall back asleep.
In the morning he begins to teach the nephew of the one of the gangster fellows english. The young boy is to follow Lin wherever he goes for the next 48 hours and if Lin thinks that he is not doing a sufficient job at teaching this boy english he can return the child to his uncle.
He takes the boy to his friend Karla's house because she has his clothes. the boy falls asleep in on the couch there as Lin talks to Lisa one of their mutual friends. As they talk and wait for Karla Lin looks at the boy, Tariq, and he starts to reflect about his own family he left back in australia. How the more he runs away the more of himself he leaves behind. He now has very little of his true self left considering that he can't use his real name or even say what country he is actually from. This towards the end of the chapter starts to bring lin down. so he decides that it is best he goes back to the slums with the boy.
On the way there they are attacked by dogs, Lin is fending them off with a large stalk of Bamboo as I read, I am not sure of the out come yet.
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