Posted in Disappointing, tagged Books, Indian writing in English, Indian authors, Book review, Indian Writing, Review, Indian Writers, Indian Fiction, Indian Novels, Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, Siddharth Dhanvanth Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If the ’Last Song of Dusk’ was bizarre, this one is bizarre too; less but bizarre all the same. Siddarth hid behind the facade of magic realism in his last book, this one however exposes him. ‘The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay’ is disappointing and does not stand up to all the hype created by the spin doctors. Even the [...]
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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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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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