I read (and didn’t much like) Kiran’s Desai’s Booker-winner
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Book Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (India)
Booker-winning Indian novel
Book Review: Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (USA)
Classic memoir and travelogue dealing with the author’s year-long jaunt on a finding herself mission. And why not!
Book review: Pyre by Perumal Murugan (India)
Something of a Gothic folk horror from India, translated from Tamil and nominated for the International Booker in 2023
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India)
Review no 162 Book 5 of my #20booksofsummer The God of Small Things is one of those books that everyone reading this will have heard of, but I don’t suppose everyone will have read. It won the Booker Prize in 1997 and rapidly became the biggest-selling work of Indian fiction by a non-expat writer. Arundhati …
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Review no 66: Two Films – 3 Idiots and Like Stars on Earth (India)
My foray into Bollywood
Review no 14: Salman Rushdie, Quichotte (India)
FAR EAST, SOUTH ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA “It may be argued that stories should not sprawl in this way, that they should be grounded in one place or the other, put down roots in the other or the one and flower in the singular soil; yet so many of today’s stories are and must be of …
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