Just went through it – wasn’t convincing enough. Alice is the ‘little girl playing house’ – a squat in which leftist rebel types congregate. She is in love with this ruffian no-good Jason and is a phenomenally organised person. Transforms the squat into something liveable, cleans rooms filled with buckets of crap and manages somehow [...]
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The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
Posted in Books on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Family Matters – by Rohinton Mistry
Posted in Books on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Phew, feel as if I’m just back from a world I lived in for about 7-and-a-half-years. This book took me back to my beloved Mumbai – to that flat I lived in, to that peculiar two-world – a Catholic’s home in very Parsi surroundings – life of mine. Suffice to say it grips you, and is so [...]
Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaatje
Posted in Books on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Effortless. You pick it up and you read through the damn thing before you get a chance to put it down. As simple as that. Somehow the strife in Sri Lanka has never been brought so horrifyingly alive. Yes, the bombings and assassinations – especially the Tamil Tigers’ involvement with Rajiv Gandhi’s killing has brought the [...]
The Famished Road – Ben Okri
Posted in Books on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m writing about The Famished Road because I just finished reading it after living with it for a month or two. It messes around a bit with your mind and I like that feeling (like Jumanji – one of my favourite movies). Azaro is an Abiku child – someone who is close to his spirit [...]
Songs of Enchantment – Ben Okri
Posted in Books on August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Picked this up as the book followed The Famished Road and I had, after The Famished Road, got used to living with Azaro and his mother, father, the blind man, Madam Koto. Thrilling imagery again. At the end the ghastly description of Azaro’s friend’s carpenter father’s body stays with you. Again the sham of political [...]
