Posted in Highly recommended, tagged Book review, Books, Chandani Lokuge, Fiction, Indian Writing in, Novel, Pakistani Authors, Pakistani Fiction, Pakistani Novel, Review, Romesh Gunesekera, Saadat Hasan Manto, Shandana Minhas, Taslima Nasreen, The Match, Tunnel Vision, Turtle Nest on July 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have started to widen my reading just to keep myself aware of what is else is out there. I looked at books coming out of our neighbours including Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. I read ‘Shodh’ by Taslima, ‘The Match’ by Romesh Gunesekera and ‘Turtle Nest’ by Chandani Lokuge. Amidst all the clamour about Taslima and her being bundled [...]
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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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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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