I was never entirely sure who belonged to what family in this book, but it never really bothered me. I mean, after we switched back to a different group of characters, I was able to reconstruct who they were related to fairly easily, but I never could hold the genealogies in my mind.Which is a way o...
There is something about train rides. Maybe it's because I HATE flying, maybe it's the beautiful places outside the window, who knows? There is something about riding trains. During my last train ride, I was seated next to a woman who loved to read, so course we began to trade you should read this...
This book has sat on my shelf for months, but I was always hesitant to start it because of its length. Almost 1500 pages long, this book seemed like a long committment and with so many other good books, I could never bring myself to pick it up. I finally started this book in early June, and I coul...
The main problem with Vikram Seth's exquisitely crafted verse novel about the personal lives of yuppies in the Bay Area of the 1980s is, well, the personal lives of yuppies. They're just not that interesting. Not even the most beautifully turned phrases, the most glowing imagery, can keep over 300 p...
When I stop crying I'll review this.PS: I'm not going to stop crying. On reflection this fact is the review.PPS: I'm so grateful to have been given this book.
This was a fantastic read. Not an easy read but a fantastic one just the same. Huge book, over 1000 pages long with political history, social commentary and most of all a family saga that keeps you going "What happens next?" Darn, this next part is about Savita or Haresh or Lata or Maan, of course n...
I seldom struggle this much with a book, but while not exactly boring, it wasn't a page-turner either, making it a very slow read. Also there were so many different characters, that it was difficult to keep them all straight, and there were 4 or 5 different plotlines - only two of which I was intere...
I was expecting a love story. But this book is better described as a story of two people making the best of their lives following the upheaval of the WWII and the holocaust. The author first explains why the couple Shanti and Henny, his great uncle and aunt, were important people in his life. Then...
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