Review from Library Journal:
A circus displays oddity and spectacle for our amusement. Irving wields his absurdist ideas, set forth in works like A Prayer for Owen Meany (LJ 3/15/89), to create a world with much the same feel. The setting is India, though there is little sense of locale (a circus being universal and transportable). At center stage is Farrokh Daruwalla, an alienated, middle-aged, Bombay-born doctor who returns to his birthplace to study circus dwarfs.

No my favourite John Irving, but one of the few I actualy own. Available for trade.

Released on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at barrier in houndsditch post office in London, England United Kingdom.

Houndsditch post office is actually on White Kennet Street which runs parallel to Houndsditch. There is a roped-off queuing system with little stands for filling in forms on. It's on one of those, as of now. I hope somebody finds it and enjoys it!

haven't read it yet..... my husband works as a chef at a hotel, and the tourists tend to pass books on to him for me to read, and so this one arrived home today... will pass it on when i've read it...

I assume this is traveling around the mediterranean somewhere...thus tagging it as 'traveling'.