Reading The Finger Puppet on the heels of Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, was very reassuring - all is not lost with Indian writing. Which brings me to my pet peeve - that authentic and deserving writers rarely get nominated for those awards. Shashi Deshpande’s In the Country of Deceit was the Indian nominee for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize recently and Siddharth Shangvi’s book has also been nominated for [...]
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Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Posted in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Recommended, tagged African Literature, Book review, Books, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fiction, Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus, The God of Small Things, Writings on July 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Evening Standard said the ‘Purple Hibiscus’ is as revealing as Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’, which I did not really believe. To my amusement I found that the likeness grew stronger as the novel progressed. There are so many striking similarities that at times you wonder if Chimamanda had read Ms. Roy’s book. The sibling attachment, the abusive fathers – [...]
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