Posted in Best sellers, Highly recommended, Rohinton Mistry, tagged Author, Book review, Indian Author, Indian Novel, Indian writing in English, Novel, Rohinton Mistry on June 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
‘Family Matters’ was my first taste of Rohinton Mistry and I have been hooked since. A master story teller, he grips the reader with easy paced narrative, one rarely feels tedium. There is always a shadow of gloom in his books, and that is what gives it the sense of realism and the need for [...]
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An engaging collection of short stories, this is a good read. ‘The Japanese Wife’ the title of the book and the first story is definitely the best in the collection. Here is a story that talks of innocent love, transcending the physical. The love between Snehamoy, a rural schoolteacher, and Miyage, his Japanese pen friend, is touching [...]
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Posted in Manil Suri, Recommended, tagged Author, Book review, Books, Fiction, Indian Author, Indian writing in English, Novel, Review on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just turned the acknowledgements page of Manil Suri’s ‘The Age of Shiva’. It took me a week to finish this one. I have not read his earlier book ‘The Death of Vishnu’ which I am aware met with decent success.
Suri shows promise as a story teller as he tries to fuse several characters and [...]
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