The Holder of the World
ISBN:
9780701135010 (0701135018)
Publish date: 1993
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Pages no: 286
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...