I think this is the
best book I’ve ever read. Big call, but
I just LOVE it. I loved it the first time I read it a few years ago and I loved
it again this second time around. The
story is filled with profoundly sad, painful and disturbing moments. But there
are also funny and even laugh out loud moments. (The description of the twins’
English teacher who is run over by a reversing truck cracks me up! – page 60 – it
is bloody hilarious!!!)
It is a magical
story woven with such beautiful language.
I am in absolute awe of the rare gem that is Arundhati Roy’s writing
style. Stunning. The horrible scene where poor, lovely little
Estha is made to do terrible things to the Orangedrink Lemondrink man at the
movies is deeply disturbing but articulated with the skill of master artist.
Roy uses such bizarre and unique prose.
I had to keep rereading sections just to savour her beautiful
manipulation of the English language. Oh
I am so in love with this novel.
Right
from the first lines of the first chapter you are just plunged into the rich,
tender and dangerous beauty of India and the lives of Roy’s eccentric cast of
characters. Those first few “hot, brooding” lines had me touching
down in Mumbai airport all over again and dreaming of going back to India!
This is a sticky sweet story about love in all it's different guises. It's not a love story. It's far more fierce than that. It's a reminder of how, when it comes to loving another human (romantically or otherwise) people frequently muddy the fragile line between wrong and right.
** Adapted from my own submision to a book club to which I once belonged.
** Adapted from my own submision to a book club to which I once belonged.
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