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Amnesia Betrayal Deception Investigations Isolation Revenge Trust Issues Thriller Fiction Literature & FictionThis sprawling historical novel is magnificent. Looking for a summer book? This is the one. It is somewhat reminiscent of the Raj Quartet which was also set in India, and equally sprawling, but with another plot line and slightly different time line The rhythm of this book hinges on cycles, balance, and duality: Hindu and Muslim, Pakistan and India, rich and poor, male and female, young and old, religious and secular,...
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Just finished my second reading of "A Suitable Boy", it will always be one of my favorite books. Looking over some of the other reviews here I see that this 1474 page novel has been called "just" an Indian soap opera, and while I think soap-opera may be an apt description, it is one of the best books I have ever read. This novel reminded me of an old fashioned English novel in the style of Dickens or Trollope or Eliot, with...
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Marriages (or divorces, according to Oscar Wilde) may be made in heaven, but as human intervention is undeniably required to negotiate them on earth, matchmaking of near and not so near ones has been a perpetual source of fascination for people from time immemorial. Perhaps it gives them a feeling of playing God to interlink the destinies of two people, probably forever.This universal trait is remarkably well-manifested among...
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I've always sustained that a good writer can describe the simple ascent of a flight of stairs, and make it interesting. A bad writer can describe a truly interesting event, such as a disaster, or falling in love, or death, and render it boring. Vikram Seth's novel is an example of the former. Seth takes the lives of several well-to-do families in India during the early '50's, and follows their steps day by day for a little...
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