The Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards 2008 shortlist is star-studded — and finding place are ‘The Enchantress of Florence’ by Salman Rushdie, ‘Sea of Poppies’ by Amitav Ghosh, ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ by Jhumpa Lahiri, ‘Past Continuous’ by Neel Mukherjee and ‘Escape’ by Manjula Padmanabhan.
This was announced by a panel comprising publisher-writer Urvashi Butalia, authors Mani Shankar Mukherji and [...]
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Escape – Manjula Padmanabhan
Posted in Disappointing, tagged Book Reviews, Books, Escape, Fiction, Indian Fiction, Indian Novel, Indian Novels, Indian Writers, Indian Writing, Indian writing in English, Manjula Padmanabhan, Novels on May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Two budding flowers and few drops of blood, the cover says it all. It took me a while to make the connection. Deep, I must add.
Actually the only new IWE book the Bangalore Airport had was this one. Only later did I hear that most critics had trashed this one and not without some reason.
Escape is [...]
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