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From the beginning, set at a funeral, the reader knows the book will end in tragedy. The only question is - how? Arundhati Roy does a pretty good job of telling an ever-so-slightly magical story about a family in India struggling with many things (the caste system, the intrusion of Western culture, class conflict, etc.) but mostly with themselves.
That's kind of the funny thing about this novel - underneath its hip, post-colonial mode of storytelling, it's really just a novel about how a family ...more
That's kind of the funny thing about this novel - underneath its hip, post-colonial mode of storytelling, it's really just a novel about how a family ...more
This books remains a hazy memory for me - every once in a while something reminds me of it, and I try to remember the name but I can't, I struggle, and finally I find it again. So I'm putting it on my list.
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Beautiful and sad. It's been a couple of weeks since I read this, and I still find myself sorting through the parallels between the story (of the English cousin of an Indian family who visits India and dies on her trip, and the life of the family before that, and the life of the family after that) and its links to post-colonialism. There's a lot here, about that, and about family, and about perspectives of the past colored by the present, and more.
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One of my favorite books. It's one of those that gets better with each read (and I think I've read it 4 times now). Her style is unconventional and I love the way she portrays the main characters who are twin children. I really wish she'd write some more fiction.
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This book is a work of art, there's just no other way to put it. Beautifully written and executed.
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Aug 11, 2007
Lynne
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Jun 10, 2008
akaellen
marked it as to-read
Jul 05, 2009
Crystal King
marked it as to-read
Jul 09, 2009
Bekah
marked it as to-read
Aug 29, 2011
Steph S
marked it as unfinished
