Holder of the World
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307792280 (0307792285)
Publish date: June 22nd 2011
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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...