affair to remember
The lyrics of a famous Hindi song were the ones came to my mind when I completed the second novel in the Cairo Trilogy. As the song goes, this novel talks about descending into recesses of one’s soul because of unrequited love. हम बेखुदी में तुमको पुकारे चले गये हम… हम बेखुदी में तुमको पुकारे […]
The Cairo Trilogy is more than just a book; it functions more like a time machine, taking you on a trip of bye gone era. This Cairo is far off from the pyramids and pharaohs you have heard of. This is a city of living, breathing neighbourhoods behind the massive gates & narrow alleyways of […]
At the heart of this book is loneliness. And the book weaves it’s theme of primal instincts around this. The story revolves around Lena, Garnett and Deanna- these are our central characters having their own character graphs and stories happening around or about them. Each of one of them is lonely in their own way, […]
माणसाला नेमकं काय हवं असतं? हि कादंबरी सुरू होते तामिळनाडूमधील एका गावात एका तामिळ ख्रिश्चन कुटुंबामध्ये आणि आपली ओळख होते वरदा राजनायकशी. कुठल्याही सर्वसामान्य मध्यमवगीय कुटुंबसारखच राजनायक कुटुंबीय; वडिलांचा सचोटीचा स्वभाव, त्यामुळे त्यांना मिळणारा आदर आणि होणाऱ्या बदल्या, आईने एका निर्णायक क्षणापर्यंत कुटुंबावर ठेवलेली पकड, दोन्ही मोठ्या बहिणी आणि ह्या सुरक्षित जगात वयात येणारा वरदा. […]
Everybody has a story to tell. The most fascinating thing about this novel is it’s a book within a book (a future book??!!); more likely a story within a story within a story – something like standing in a room full of mirrors and wondering at reflections within reflections. At a precise point in time; […]
This book came to me as part of prize won for my last year’s readathon of reading 30 books in span of a single year. Since this was my first book by this author; I actually started reading it with a blank mind and on an afterthought it seems to be a wise decision. As […]
