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It is the 1960s, and violent revolution has come to India and America. Two brothers, Subhash and Udayan, born in Calcutta just fifteen months apart, have been inseparable since birth, but their paths are diverging. Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Communist movement sweeping Bengal. He will risk all for what he believes. But Subhash, the dutiful son, doesn't share his brother's political passion, and leaves home to pursue a life o ...more
It is the 1960s, and violent revolution has come to India and America. Two brothers, Subhash and Udayan, born in Calcutta just fifteen months apart, have been inseparable since birth, but their paths are diverging. Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Communist movement sweeping Bengal. He will risk all for what he believes. But Subhash, the dutiful son, doesn't share his brother's political passion, and leaves home to pursue a life o ...more
I love Jhumpa Lahiri's short story collections, but her novels are not on the same level, in my opinion. There was a great deal that I liked about this book - the historical background of the Naxalite movement in India, the examination of the cost to those who fight for social change, the lasting effect of the choice between violence and nonviolence, and the role of women and the concept of family and family responsibility in India and in the United State. These are the reasons that I am giving
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This is a beautifully written novel, full of bold sorrow and muted hope. Where there is hope, no matter how cautiously one treads from the past, there is a chance of happiness. But some people cannot or will not move forward, and for them life is a continuous echo of sorrow, an eternity of regret. Those incapable of happiness because old wounds failed to heal will be cruel to those who try to love them. Whether it desires company or solitude, misery consumes whomever is nearest. Regardless of ho
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Reminiscent of her earlier works; it feels like a variation on the theme. I wanted to like it more but I felt I've heard this woman's story before.
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Hands down my favorite novel by Lahiri. Simply beautiful.
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