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One Night at the Call Center : A Novel
Author: Chetan Bhagat


Press 1 for technical support. Press 2 for broken hearts. Press 3 if your life has totally crashed. . . . Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. appliance corporation. Skilled in patience- and accent management- they help American consumers keep their lives running. Yet behind the headsets, everybody's heart is on the line. Shyam (Sam to his callers) has lost his self-confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him. Priyanka's domineering mother has arranged for her daughter's upscale marriage to an Indian man in Seattle. Esha" "longs to be a model but discovers it's a horizontal romp to the runway. Lost, dissatisfied Vroom has high ideals, but compromises them by talking on the phone to idiots each night. Traditional Radhika has just found out that her husband is sleeping with his secretary. And Military Uncle (nobody knows his real name) sits alone working the online chat. They all try to make it through their shifts- and maintain their sanity- under the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence. But tonight is no ordinary night. Tonight is Thanksgiving in America: Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks. Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything. Chetan Bhagat's delicious romantic comedy takes us inside the world of the international call center, where cultural cross-wires come together with perfect pathos, hilarity, and spice.

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One Night at the Call Center
One Night at the Call Center
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Paperback
5/1/2007
Ballantine Books
ISBN13 : 9780345498328

Reader Reviews

soccermom 04/29/09

I read this book. I had no idea that Indians felt so much prejudice towards Americans until I read some of the thins in this book. But getting past all the prejudices I thought that this book sounded more like a long-winded lecture than a story. Anyway, Lincoln Park addressed some of the rude things they said in her book, HANDLE TIME.

If you are Indian and work in a call center, I guess this book would be for you. I am American, and it was not for me. I don't think many Americans would be too happy about this book.
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