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Extraordinary Achievement, no Small Thing at all
This book powerfully recalls the astonishing feat Faulkner performed in rendering children's points of view as they try to comprehend and assimilate the tragedies drawn and suffered by the significant adults in their lives. With an equally experimental and more poetical narration than Faulkner, Arundhati Roy renders a family saga comprehending three generations in Kerala. The book should be read aloud; it needs to be heard. The brooding sense of lo ...more
This book powerfully recalls the astonishing feat Faulkner performed in rendering children's points of view as they try to comprehend and assimilate the tragedies drawn and suffered by the significant adults in their lives. With an equally experimental and more poetical narration than Faulkner, Arundhati Roy renders a family saga comprehending three generations in Kerala. The book should be read aloud; it needs to be heard. The brooding sense of lo ...more
"It's not you, it's me" is how I feel about this book.
Perharps was it a mistake to read it in English (beautiful
prose that sometimes felt like trying too hard ? Sometimes,
I really wished the author went straight to the point), the writing style was not easy.
Combined with the disjointed narrative and my inability to remember
who was who (the different names, how they were related etc), I felt
lost most of the time. It also didn't help that I didn't feel any connection
towards the characters be it g ...more
Perharps was it a mistake to read it in English (beautiful
prose that sometimes felt like trying too hard ? Sometimes,
I really wished the author went straight to the point), the writing style was not easy.
Combined with the disjointed narrative and my inability to remember
who was who (the different names, how they were related etc), I felt
lost most of the time. It also didn't help that I didn't feel any connection
towards the characters be it g ...more
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