Solid read. Enjoyed it, but a bit heavy on the subplots and overly descriptive paragraphs.
Mukherjee’s novel is a fantastic journey not through history, per se, but about the aspects of the personal that inform history and its varied tellings. Many of the reviews I’ve read of The Holder of the World that were negative seemed to be expecting a historical fiction; this is far from Mukherjee...
A very interesting look at old vs. new India, highly recommend.
Collection of short stories. Excellent. She writes effortlessly it seems. The writing is smooth, flows well, good pace.
p. 43 "She did not want to carry any relics from her old life; given another chance she could be a more exciting person, take evening classes perhaps, become a librarian. She had heard that many Indian wives in the States became librarians." Stories of women's lives have been among my favorite reads...
Most of the characters in Bharati Mukherjee's The Middleman and Other Stories are displaced, foreign born people living in America. They feel odd, out of touch with the world in which ...
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