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Apr 25, 2023sprasad888 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Fantastic book. If you try to categorize this book into neat boxes or you try to find a through line, you might get lost. If you are willing to flow through the book and become everyone and everything, you will understand the brilliance of…
Apr 14, 2022DPL_Emily rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Gosh, I did not particularly enjoy this book. The God of Small Things, the author’s first novel, changed my worldview. This book had too many characters to ignite the same transformation. Over 50% of the literary devices were lost on me…
Apr 30, 2021
A lot of gratuitous swearing - this book is not for me
Jul 16, 2020Memawrayne rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I read 2 chapters but just couldn't get interested in it. I have too many other books that I want to read that i can't give more time on this one. Maybe it gets more interesting later on. I did not like the "over use" of another…
May 23, 2020
did not read. to many language word switching just to introduce different languages to text
Apr 10, 2019pridi_o rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Beyond words... Incredible book.
Jan 11, 2019
Prose. People. The epic scope of continuing political unrest in Kashmir, told by individuals who are in the middle of it.
Nov 26, 2018writermala rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Arundhati Roy is a great writer. It is, therefore, no surprise that her first book won a Booker Prize. This book is very well written too. At first I felt a little uncomfortable with the charachters but soon they grew on me. Aftab/Anjum is…
Jul 08, 2018davidp1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
There's a brilliant lecture and discussion by the author here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tFom1WihPY Arundhati Roy is my hero. Her book was tough to follow in places, but it is a wonderful book.
Jun 25, 2018DanglingConversations rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Although the language is poetic I found the story inaccessible. As a reader unfamiliar with subtle aspects of Indian culture and with the vernacular of that country, the book could not hold my attention past 200 pages. I skipped around…
Mar 21, 2018hamerkop rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This book is a mandatory read for the Canadian Broadcasting Company and its reporters, who conveniently refuse to address Gujarat ka Lalle's extremism and Hindu nationalist blood shedding in Rajasthan and Kashmir, in their coverage of…
Mar 14, 2018uncommonreader rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Innovative, interesting, complex and harrowing, this novel is an indictment of the "new India" and the oppression in Kashmir and elsewhere under a nationalist Hindu government.
Jan 25, 2018SCL_Justin rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The confusion I felt about whether this book is a novel or a collection of linked short stories seems appropriate to a story about hijras and transgender people, and the politics of Kashmir and policing in modern India. These aren't topics…
Jan 19, 2018
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Jan 04, 2018Samatuna109 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Can't see what all the fuss is about. Have preferred many other Indian authors.
Oct 25, 2017wyenotgo rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
With regret, after 200 pages I finally had to give up and acknowledge that I still don't know what this book is all about. I found much of it unintelligible, partly because it's filled with words whose meaning remains a mystery to me; in…
Sep 26, 2017m0mmyl00 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This was a difficult book to read. It traveled back and forth in time, and skipped without warning from one place to another. I almost put it down, but couldn't. So many scenes were so unlikely. An hermaphrodte is born to a woman who wants…
Aug 28, 2017infinityg37 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I'm with Brangwinn on her comments. Was so excited to read a book by the Author of the God of Small Things, but found this one long and confusing.
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Aug 16, 2017Cynthia_N rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I struggled with this one. It was at times a beautiful story with characters I liked but it wasn't enough for me to really enjoy reading it. Three stars because of the character Anjum.
Aug 08, 2017GummiGirl rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Highly complex, and polemical at times, but frequently poetic and worth persisting through the confusing parts. It gave me a real feel for a rapidly developing country and Kashmir in particular.
Aug 06, 2017brangwinn rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I have loved the past novels of Roy, but this book failed to hold my attention as _The God of Small Things_ did. I’m not sure disjointed is the right word for the way it was written, but I could never gain empathy for the main characters,…
Jul 03, 2017Candaceb108 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Faced with the kaleidoscope of chaos that was India in the 80's and still now, what other book could Roy write. So much can be forgiven. How else would an author present such incredibly idiocy of war and cruelty. I don't know. The books…
Jul 01, 2017spiderfelt_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Can you imagine a book so lush it propels you into a world you've never visited? The scents, sounds, colors and feelings of Delhi, Kashmir and Kerala were almost tangible. Arundhati Roy possesses the ability to build people who tower over…