After the prolix of Love in the Time of Cholera, Train to Pakistan was a refreshing change. Not merely for its brevity and directness, but also for a context with which I could very much relate.
Although fiction, the background events are real. Thousands of refugees perished during the exodus, when a Pakistan was split from [...]
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Train To Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
Posted in Book reviews, India authors, Indians writing in English, South Asian Writers, South Asian literature, fiction, literature, novel on August 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Love In the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Posted in Book reviews, fiction, literature, novel on August 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Love in the time of Cholera did not impress me. It is, of course, a translation. Thus, I do not know how much of its original essence was lost. But surely, the story would be the same, which, I found quite uninspiring, even boring and inane at times. There is very little dialog in the [...]
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