I ll be frank :) When this novel was suggested to me by one of my friends M, I was excited to see a Mangalorean author :P heheheh so ran and grabbed this book from the library. Well, the book is written in a weird way :)
The style is so much different from the authors I usually read. But I persisted and read along. And I really liked the way he evolved the story about the driver Balram Halwai and his master. The driver narrates a series about his life and how he came to kill his master. All in all, a good novel, if you can overcome his different style of writing
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This novel I really liked :) Although I guess not for the same reasons as everyone. I wouldnt say it is one of my favorites.. but the book was good. It was based in China and the story is told by Pearl's mother Winnie.
It is also is about the tension between Winnie and Pearl and also between Winnie and her friend. It is about the struggles in China during the World War. I mean being a person of today's generation, we don't know much about how people lived during war and how it was. It provides a sad insight into this part.
Well, all in all , the book was really good :) Keeps you guessing till the end as to what will happen next. It is a story of a Chinese military doctor Lin and his wife Shuyu and his so-called girlfriend Maana Wu. Lin and Maana want to get married and so Lin go every year to meet his wife Shuyu to ask for a divorce. They go every year to the court for the divorce but at the end, Shuyu always answers No. This happens atleast 3-4 times in the book.
Well, the funny thing is after reading the entire book, I almost felt so angry on the three characters. About Maana for being such an idiot and waiting for almost 18 years, about Lin who is roaming around with Maana and ignoring his wife Shuyu just because she is not good looking ( but Shuyu is the one who took care of his ailing parents and did everything for him) and Shuyu for being so patient. Well that's life I guess. Different people with different personalities! But it's a nice novel to read about China and Chairman Mao and the cultural revolution
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