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    <body><![CDATA[Amitav Ghosh's second novel is as beautifully written as his other novels, but the narrative, especially in the first part, somehow lacks cohesiveness. It reads more like  the disjointed memoir of a precocious Calcutta schoolboy than a finished novel, endlessly flipping between different eras, somet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53906564">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amitav Ghosh's first novel is both a sweeping epic and a quietly personal odyssey.  It alternates between humor and tragic poignancy with absolute fluidity, examining the way that we are all mired in a language that deprives us of reality but supplies us with meaning - a truth that allows us to deli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47242595">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a required read in my Literature Translation class last semester. It has a slow start, but about 20 pages in,I found myself losing an hour or 2 of sleep a night because I didn't want to put it down. Goush is a brilliant writer. The Showdow Lines is one of the more intelligent novels I'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56505502">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book I compare with all other Colonial-India books.  One of my favorites.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a kind of warm-up for his  master work: In an Antique Land.  It has that same rhythm of narrative unfolding with synoptic essay like commentary mixed in.  Parts of this book have stayed with me.  The bit about the lines themselves, for example.  And the idea that one character who has lived ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9411044">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, one of the best books I've ever read. It taught me about events in history that I knew very little about (the creatuin of Bengal partition between India and Pakistan, during the period independence). At times, you will smirk at its cleverness. At other times, you'll cringe at the stark rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10096402">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the finest novels in Indian Writing in English, The Shadow Lines takes you through Calcutta, Dhaka and London in search of an answer to a question that is very subtly evoked in the book. The book is poignant in its critique of communal riots and how they leave their memory in death and remini...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4798251">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this years ago, in a &quot;Bengali Literature: in English and in Translation&quot; class I took. I remember it being very beautifully written and absorbing. A college freshman, I still retained some of my teenage tendency to shun darkness or unpleasantness in stories, but this book's writing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37689723">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As cliche as this sounds, Ghosh's book is clearly the one I'd pack if I had to spend the rest of my life on a deserted island! Seriously....I could read this a trillion times and never tire of it! <br/>....and coming to think of it...I'm not sure where my copy is! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Post-colonial literature has found a place in my heart.  This book was so powerfully written that I has such a great connection with the character while I was reading it, and I am sure that I it will be the same if I get to read it again.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A touching and exquisite take on partition on the India/East Pakistan border, which we hear much less about than the India/(West) Pakistan side.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Imposed black and white line are created, and the individuals suffer the consequences. And it happens everywhere.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a masterful, understated picture of lives transformed by communal violence.  A favorite.  ]]></body>
    
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