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Meet the Patel-Joneses—Babo, Sian, Mayuri, and Bean—in their little house with orange and black gates next door to the Punjab Women's Association in Madras. Babo grew up here, but he and Sian, his cream-skinned Welsh love, met in London. Babo's parents disapproved. And then they disapproved unless the couple moved back to Madras. So here they are. And as the twentieth cent...more

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Published August 31st 2010 by Bloomsbury USA (first published January 1st 2010)

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May 16, 2013 Tatum rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Although I am NOT a fan of Love stories, I must admit that this really captivated me- twice in the past two years.

Peter Bradshaw introduces "The Pleasure Seekers" as follows:

"The poet Tishani Doshi has written a beguiling first novel: a gentle, funny and readable tribute to her parents' marriage. Her Welsh mother and Indian father are here fictionalised as Siân Jones, the beautiful gap-toothed girl from North Wales working as a London office temp in the 60s, and Babo, the naive boy from Madras,...more Although I am NOT a fan of Love stories, I must admit that this really captivated me- twice in the past two years.

Peter Bradshaw introduces "The Pleasure Seekers" as follows:

"The poet Tishani Doshi has written a beguiling first novel: a gentle, funny and readable tribute to her parents' marriage. Her Welsh mother and Indian father are here fictionalised as Siân Jones, the beautiful gap-toothed girl from North Wales working as a London office temp in the 60s, and Babo, the naive boy from Madras, new in town, who to the consternation of his family falls hard for Siân, his head already spinning with the forbidden novelties of alcohol and meat."

Here, Tishani Doshi's skill as a poet are reflected very well. She manages to take the story of her own parents; not necessarily a very interesting love story, and changes it to something truly incredible through her writing. Its very sensual in that, while reading it, one really feels the subtle truths about life, love and the realities of a century in which "forbidden Love" is no longer forbidden; where it is truly allowed to blossom. In her language, she also creates a sense of the beauty, as well as the cruelty of life as experienced by her various characters.

My favorite character is definitely Ba, Babo's grandmother. While she has been described as "a little too ethereally wise" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/...), she has her own richness, and really lends a very meditative quality to the book. Here, it is not only about jokes and sometimes superficial (and melodramatic)life crises, but through this character, serious readers are really allowed to penetrate into a much deeper spiritual experience. Ba is the refuge, she is non-judgmental and occupies an almost sacred space, where all meaning dissolves; characters actions, lifestyles and flaws fall away and they can be appreciated for who and what they are.

Apart from incredible characters, the landscape has been written as well. From the dingy space Babo occupies before meeting Sian to BA's haven and of course, the house with orange and black gates. Nothing escapes the beautiful craftsmanship of Doshi's poetry.(less)

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Jun 16, 2012 Poonam rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: library

Tishani Doshi re-invents her parents' story in a novel spanning four generations. It is set in Madras of 1960s, and Madras it remains throughout the novel.

Tishani takes a page out of her parents' heritage - a Welsh mother and Gujrati Jain father whose family has always lived in Madras. Babo, the Gujju Jain son goes to study in England (that cliche racism never figures, btw) and meets Sian - a office girl. They fall in love and despite disapproval of their families they marry. Sian leaves and Eng...more

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May 31, 2012 Maddie rated it 4 of 5 stars

One of my favorites. I took my time getting through it, putting it down for hours, days and even weeks to reflect on it... I didn't want it to end. It is as beautiful, refreshing, and inspiring as anything I have ever read. So well written I could actually hear, smell and taste it. The WRITING is what makes it so wonderful. The story itself is a bit slow (hardly any conflict, instead spans a lifetime of usual highs and lows of a multigenerational family), so I recommend going into it with an app...more

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Jul 26, 2010 The Blurb Radio Show rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Review by Bernard Ryan

Isn’t it one of the great joys of reading that via our imaginations we can become immersed in a new culture with all its sights and smells and sounds, its food and music, its beliefs and attitudes….without leaving home? We have spoken before on this program about the recent emergence of novels in English from the once “Asia Minor ”. The Middle Eastern writers have long been around as have authors from equally-exotic Anglophone places such as Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Th...more Review by Bernard Ryan

Isn’t it one of the great joys of reading that via our imaginations we can become immersed in a new culture with all its sights and smells and sounds, its food and music, its beliefs and attitudes….without leaving home? We have spoken before on this program about the recent emergence of novels in English from the once “Asia Minor ”. The Middle Eastern writers have long been around as have authors from equally-exotic Anglophone places such as Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Thanks to Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth and Rohinton Mistry, we have lately come to enjoy the life of contemporary India. Today’s novel again takes us in to the life of a family in the subcontinent.

Here we follow the life of Babo Patel from Madras in Tamil Nadhu, from 1968 until 2001, quite a history when one plots in the events that affected India so dramatically in those decades. The cover blurb accurately observes that this book by first-time New Delhi-based novelist Dashi is about “the quirks and calamities of an unusual clan in a story of identity, family and belonging”. Social observers remind us the Australian family is in the midst of change of a pace never before seen, and so Dashi takes us on the journey of change of this aspiring middle-class Indian family….not all that different in many ways to some of ours!

In the first half of the novel, young adult Babo is off to London for work and study. Raised a Jain [ non-smoking, vegetarian, non-drinking, pacifist, celibate,etc.:] he is quickly captivated by the wiles of a still-swinging London, and before long falls in love [ for life, as it turns out:] with a Welsh girl, the lively Sian. In spite of the sly manipulations of his parents back home, he marries Sian – but only on condition the newlyweds agree to live back in India for two years where Babo will learn his father’s business. Once in Madras Sian proves quick [and amazingly tolerant :] to immerse herself into the local way of life. She and Babo, however, still manage to maintain an almost independent, ‘nuclear’ family life with their two daughters. What seems to keep Babo in balance is his continued query: “ Is that all there is?”

In the second half, Dashi focuses even more sharply on Babo’s family though inevitably his hapless brother, Chotu, takes on bigger role. While our attention is always on these interesting and very human characters, Dasi never lets the reader forget the social milieu in which they move – or the historic events [assassinations,etc. :] that are constantly plaguing India. It is this subtle blending of these dimensions that create the novel’s lasting impact: this is a narrative of “ Mother India” at the end of the millennium.

What about the title – “ The Pleasure Seekers”? Dashi dedicated her first book to her parents ….” The first pleasure seekers”. Now, Babo and Sian are ‘in love ‘throughout the novel, and generally there is great joy in their love-making. But this is not about HEDONISM, pleasure for its own sake. The REAL “pleasure “ derived by these characters is usually OTHER-centred. The only really miserable character is Babo’s father, Prem, who is a caricature of the work-obsessed patriarch. By contrast, I must mention the wonderful Ba, the grandmother, the de facto matriarch, to whom though she lives miles away all turn when in trouble. She is a saintly, perhaps mystical figure, helping all and surviving every disaster. She is the loving heart of the Patel clan……but I have probably given too much away.

I find anything to do with India quite enthralling, but this is a gem of a novel: beautifully polished, not a word wasted and written in the most fluent of prose.

Read this book.(less)

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Nov 12, 2010 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: literature-new-old

It is set mostly in Madras, India and spans about thirty years. A young Gujerati man studying abroad in England meets a Welsh girl. They fall deeply in love. How they keep their love strong and stay happy in spite of the odds against them, how they inspire family members with a desire for a similar love, how they do their best to raise their daughters to be happy. Mostly about real family life with its sadness, happiness, and challenges. I really liked it.One of the things I liked best is that i...more

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Apr 02, 2011 Tze-Wen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: orange-prize

The Pleasure Seekers is a ballad of love, the kind that hits you like a deluge and threatens to sweep you away from everything you were and knew before, into blissful oblivion. It is also an ode to family, to the loved ones that are at the core of your existence, and who matter most in the end. And finally, it is the quest of many who are seeking themselves within and without, a quest that will take them to their predestined future.
The book strongly reminded me of Another Gulmohar Tree (see my...more The Pleasure Seekers is a ballad of love, the kind that hits you like a deluge and threatens to sweep you away from everything you were and knew before, into blissful oblivion. It is also an ode to family, to the loved ones that are at the core of your existence, and who matter most in the end. And finally, it is the quest of many who are seeking themselves within and without, a quest that will take them to their predestined future.
The book strongly reminded me of Another Gulmohar Tree (see my review here). There are many distinct differences though, of which the most important is that Doshi's book is based on a true story; the love story of her Gujarati father and Welsh mother. Being of mixed heritage herself, it may have been easier for the author to imbue her characters with pangs of displacement and soul-searching. Another difference is the story's focus. Unlike Hussein's book, The Pleasure Seekers encompasses no less than four generations, following them on their cross-boundary search for love, happiness, and reasons to live. In a way, the tale is told by Ba, grandmother of Babo, who can foretell destinies by reading the winds, rains, and scents around her. That would explain the casual (though fatalistic) referrals to future events, embedded in earlier parts of the story. The saga begins with Babo, who leaves the Patel nest only to return as a changed man. His wife, Siân, who has already said her goodbyes to her childhood home when she left for London, does it a second time, traveling even further now. Yet, where Hussein's Lydia and Usman had their obvious difficulties, it appears that Babo's and Siân's love for each other manages to hold them together in good times and in bad. In fact, their love affair has set the standard, and those witness to their relationship will not settle for less. Poor Chotu (Babo's younger brother Tejas) first rejects the notion of love, and when he is ready to take the plunge, he is terribly betrayed by it. Babo's daughters Mayuri and Bean (nickname for Beena) also pine for the whirlwind romance of their parents. Bean, I believe, suffers the most in the end, but also comes out of it the wisest and most grounded of them all.
This breathtaking novel truly captured my heart, made me cry bitter tears and lifted me up high into the sky. I was utterly swept away, absorbed into the Technicolor world of The Pleasure Seekers. How recognizable the universal search for love, and the feeling of displacement and alienation that has become widespread in our day. (less)

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Sep 14, 2010 Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars

"There is no such thing as home. Once you have forsaken it and stepped outside of the circle, you can't ever re-enter and claim anything as yours."

This is a quote from the book that captures one essential truth -- that stepping outside of one's home boundaries has great consequences for everyone.

This book explores the lives of a family whose cultures combine in the amazing prosaic story woven by Tishani Doshi. The lives of each of these characters touches so many.

As someone who has forsaken and...more

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Sep 26, 2010 Alicia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads, general-fiction

This book was definitely worth the quick read that it was. At times, the poetic-ness of the author's style seemed a bit much, especially as I wanted to learn more about the family and what was going to happen next. But, the writing was well done and made for some really interesting images. I also think that Doshi does an excellent job of keeping the reader engaged, because I was always wanting to know what happened next, especially with the grandmother's eerie dream predications.

I thought that...more

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Nov 29, 2010 Siria rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 21st-century, by-poc, indian-fiction

I enjoyed parts of The Pleasure Seekers—the wry humour, the lyrical writing, the neatly sketched characters—but it failed to come together for me into a satisfying whole. I felt as if Doshi should have either focused more on the first half of the story—that of Babo and Sian's cross-cultural romance—or expanded the book to become a true multigenerational epic. As it is, there's no real structure to the book, no sense of conflict, climax and resolution—there are many mini-conflicts, true, but none...more

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Sep 23, 2010 Lacey rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads-wins

I was very excited to receive this book via the goodreads giveaway, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, but I'm having a hard time reviewing it. I liked it, but I can't really put my finger on what exactly it is about the story that made me like it so much. Part of it is definitely the setting - I find everything about India fascinating. There's nothing particularly special about the plot or the characters, but my attention was held, and while I didn't necessarily care about what happened to th...more

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May 02, 2012 Dilina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-fiction, south-asian

I feel like giving this 2 but I'll give 3 stars. Perhaps I'm being a bit too harsh because I'm sure a lot of people will love this book.

It is beautifully written. Paragraphs and sentences unfold with wonderful comparisons and metaphors. It's very poetic and Doshi's history as a poet shows clearly. I was fortunate enough to very briefly meet her and I would say her writing mirrors her perfectly.

However I didn't feel a connection from one passage to the next. The flow is not smooth, it's intermitt...more

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Sep 17, 2010 Svati rated it 2 of 5 stars

I'd like to give this book 2 1/2 stars. It was a fairly fast and painless read, but not highly enjoyable. This is the first book I've gotten for free from Goodreads' "first-reads" program; I was thrilled to have it arrive in the mail a few weeks ago - it looked fresh and beautiful and ready to dive into, as new paperback books always do.

Anyway, I thought I would enjoy this story because of my personal background; my mother is an American and my father is from India, so I'm a "hybrid," exactly l...more

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Jul 13, 2011 Elaine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

This book was very pleasant and pleasantly written, and the family situation depicted is certainly interesting. But, but, but. It's too pleasant! The narrative thread is too gentle, with very little dramatic suspense (only the last 5 pages or so) or real character development. There are also too many grandiloquent statements (Love is X. Love is Y. Fill the empty spaces in your life with Love!) that lack real emotional sense or content. There are a few too many characters -- we end up wanting to...more

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Nov 28, 2010 Lorraine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to Lorraine by: LT ER

Shelves: z2010, middle-east

There is no denying that this book is well written. The prose is beautiful. The line between detail and concision is well tread. That the book was written in English, published in New York, but written by someone living in India and unapologetically uses Indian terms without explanation adds to its charm. However, I failed to find be captivated by the story.
In any high school English class we are told that a good story has a conflict, rising action, climax, and usually resolution. This story is...more

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Apr 20, 2011 Buried In Print rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: orange-prize, debut, read-in-2011

Tishani Doshi’s debut opens with Prem Kumar Patel, 47 years old, and his wife, Trishala, sending off their oldest son, Babo, to England, with three younger children remaining at home. The novel begins with a voyage and contains many more.

At the time, the family is “completely innocent of the tumultuous changes [Babo’s] departure was going to bring upon them all”, but the departure is just one catalyst for change in this family saga.

The Pleasure Seekers contains countless emotional and geographic...more

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Mar 24, 2013 Highlyeccentric rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-for-fun

This book was lovely - warm, wide-ranging, and with a strong sense of place. The key themes - homesickness, travel, belonging and 'what to do with the space your loved ones leave behind' - are embroidered with different emphasis in each character. By far my favourite was Ba, the semi-mystic great-grandmother of the clan.

I was charmed by the emphasis on similarity between Sian and Babo and their respective families. England isn't Sian's homeland into which she welcomes Babo: she's an exile there...more

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Oct 15, 2011 Neil rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a remarkably good book. Doshi beautifully achieves one of the central purposes of good literature, which is to shed a unique look at humanity and the multifaceted ways of our lives. I liked Doshi's blend of narrative storytelling, magic realism (only the slightest brush of it) and lyrical writing. For a writer so new in her craft, I was astounded by Doshi's breadth of knowledge and about the sympathetic treatment of her characters. This book didn't keep me up at night; at times I felt as...more

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Sep 21, 2010 Wanda rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, fiction-and-literature, womens-fiction

The writing is both poetic and luminous and as the author is first and foremost a poet, it shows in her writing. However, during my reading of this book, I felt as if she were writing an homage to her parents and her heritage rather than telling a story. The narrative served more to mark passages in time than to "tell a story."

It's a fast read (I started it yesterday afternoon and finished it up this morning) and while I don't regret reading this book, I just wish that the book had been a bit "...more

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Apr 14, 2012 Lester rated it 2 of 5 stars

Recommended to Lester by: Jessica

Doshi's novel begins as an endearing tale of the realities faced by well-to-do children from India who are left to the cutural and meteorological turbulence of London when they want to pursue furthre studies there. The ensuing story of 'Babo' meeting and falling in love with the Welsh beauty 'Sian', and the cultural accomodation with must take place in order for things to work out, are well thought out and written. But the mystique and interest of the book ended there. Doshi, it seems, wanted to...more

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Feb 13, 2012 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: indian-authors, my-favourite-books

This book is a must-read by this Indian poet-turned-author for every Indian-born who went abroad to study and/or married a Westerner. You’ll find it infinitely relatable and full of laugh-out-loud childhood nostalgia from being left out of an elder sibling’s play-time with classmates to reading the Hardy Boys and Enid Blyton.

The story centers around the eldest son of a Gujarati Jain family settled in Madras going abroad to study and work. Once there, he falls in love with a Welsh girl whom he ma...more This book is a must-read by this Indian poet-turned-author for every Indian-born who went abroad to study and/or married a Westerner. You’ll find it infinitely relatable and full of laugh-out-loud childhood nostalgia from being left out of an elder sibling’s play-time with classmates to reading the Hardy Boys and Enid Blyton.

The story centers around the eldest son of a Gujarati Jain family settled in Madras going abroad to study and work. Once there, he falls in love with a Welsh girl whom he marries and settles back in Madras with. The only flaw I’d mention is that Babo and Sian’s relationship seems untainted with conflict, tension or disagreement. But, there was enough tension in the lives of other family members to keep this reader’s nose firmly in the book from start to finish. A taster,

“On their first night together as husband and wife, on cotton mattresses in Ba’s back room, Sian couldn’t get certain things out of her head – her mother and father, her two brothers, her aunts and uncles, Ronnie and Gwen and Dee. Where were they now? Could they feel her thinking of them? Was this how it was going to be from now on? One foot in, the other foot out. Would it always feel like you never belonged no matter where you went, who you found to love? And Babo, lying next to his wife, felt all this. Felt her blue-green veins fill up with a certain kind of sorrow that hadn’t been there before. It was something to do with time and distance, love and separation. It spread through her transparent skin and shone through her like snow.”

This was a really pleasurable read and I was tempted to read the whole thing in one go but staggered it over a few days to make sure that the pleasure of reading it would last longer. Anyone who left an Indian home to study in the West will be able to relate to many of the experiences described in the opening pages: weather-shock, culture-shock, horrible British cuisine, the shock of calling teachers by their first name and many other instances. The author’s poetic side surfaces often throughout the book. Most enjoyable of all are the slip-ins of words I often heard in my childhood: nakras, liar-liar and Styoopid-Eedyot, were my favourites.
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Feb 02, 2011 Andrea Blythe rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

When Babo leaves Madras, India to study in London, he finds only loneliness and cold, that is until he meets Sian. When he meets her, he immediately falls in love with a ba-da-boom boom boom of his heart. Though his strict Jain parents are horrified by his new love, they are willing to make a compromise. If Babo and Sian wish to marry, they must live with his parents in Madras for two years -- after which point, they can live where they please.

So, Sian leaves Britain's shores and flies to India,...more

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Oct 25, 2010 Kimberly rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads

I won this book through first-reads, and it did not disappoint! I fell in love with the story right away and stayed engrossed until the end. I was not ready for it to be over! It's a beautifully written story of an Indian man, Babo Patel, who falls in love with a Welsh woman, Sian Jones, while he's attending school in London. Babo's family disapproves of Sian unless the couple moves to Madras, where they eventually raise their two daughters, Mayuri and Bean. The story mostly revolves around the...more

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Jul 27, 2010 Bettie rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: book at bedtime listeners

Shelves: britain-wales, summer-2010, published-2010, subcontinent

I can tell already that this is just not going to be for me - even with the Welsh connection...

Poet, journalist and dancer, Tishani Doshi, has a Welsh mother and a Gujurati father. This twin inheritance is at the heart of her comic, lyrical and tenderly written first novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses, who live in a little house with orange and black gates next door to the Punjab Women's Association in Madras. It's an epic story full of vividly drawn characters, whose private live...more

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May 09, 2011 Geeta rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book. It based on a loved story of an Indian man and a Welsh woman who meet in London and quickly fall in love. Instead of letting cultures and religions get in the way of their love they somehow embraces their differences and overcome the odds, especially considering they fell in love in the lates 60s, a time where interracial relationships were not embraced, no matter the races. The author does a good job of tracing the years of the family. I would recommend this book to...more

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May 15, 2012 Cosmic Yatri rated it 4 of 5 stars

Tishani Doshi has etched out her characters so impressively that I felt in touch with them while reading. This is one book where I couldn't wait to find 'what happens in the end', to ALL the characters! She takes her characters from Madras to England, Wales, Mumbai, Gujarat and you never feel left behind when you read and understand the beautiful people in her book as they experience love, grief, failure, triumph, life.

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Dec 01, 2012 Taranum rated it 5 of 5 stars

one thing that i remember the most about the book is the pleasure that its words gave me. not just the words, but the tandem of emotions that the book offered through the characters' lives was immensely enjoyable for me. a marriage across borders, the welsh bride trying to fit into an Indian culture, a panorama of feelings, a great grandmother with a wonderful psychological aptitude, and so on mixed together to form a wonderful book, the pleasure seekers.

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Nov 03, 2011 Rhona rated it 5 of 5 stars

Beautiful, poetic descriptions with dreamy narration. The narrative jumps and it makes you wonder where the characters have been in between, but it makes you feel as if they are existing in their world beyond the novel. The description of the relationship between the central male and female characters is beautifully written and the two cultures captured with an acute sense of time and place.

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Jan 01, 2012 Diane added it

The writing of this book drew me right in and made me love the characters. It shows that cultural differences can be surmounted even when there is some disapproval. The characters are engaging and the writing is wonderful. The author deals with many of the big passages of life and how people deal with these events in different ways, but we all have to deal with them.

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Sep 21, 2010 Hathim rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: everyone;lovers

The Pleasure Seekers is not a page-turner, but I was pulled into its story, that is full of life and characters, love and emotions, and also rooted to its culture. The novel was good till the moment Babo married Sian. Afterwards, it was brilliant. The book brings out real Indian characters, in a way that I could understand the feeling they go through.

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Sep 16, 2010 Rachel rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: in-my-library, first-reads

Doshi's first novel, The Pleasure Seekers, was a whirlwind of births, deaths, marriages, love and attempts at love. Doshi writes believable characters, be they male or female, Jain or Parsi or Welsh. It was a quick read (I finished it in about six hours), but generally enjoyable. If you like Jhumpa Lahiri, you'll probably like Tishani Doshi.

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