Descriptive, disturbing, thought-provoking and utterly haunting.
I finally decided to quit on this, despite having already slogged through 361 pages. It was just too heavy on origin of languages, Indian history I'm not at all familiar with, and a non-stop soap opera with characters I just had no interest in. I just don't think it was written for me, or for a ve...
This novel had a lot of material to work with, upper class society in India, upper class society in Pakistan, the differences and relations between the two, sexuality and homosexuality in Pakistan, the inner workings of a telecommunications conglomerate in Pakistan, etc. But it turned out to be just...