Reviews

The Girl with the Golden Parasol by Uday Prakash, Jason Grunebaum

apriltrepagnier's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Way darker than I anticipated. There seems to be something very important being imparted in this story. I need to study more to figure out what it is, as I know the failure to grasp it all is mine, not the author's or the translator's. I do have some questions about the ending, so I am super excited about discussing it in class tonight. 

kristinjones28's review against another edition

2.0

I want to preference my star rating by acknowledging that I read the English translation of this book, and I know a lot gets lost in translation. Additionally, I don’t know a lot about Indian culture, so a lot of the references and nuances were completely lost on me. However, I think this book was trying to do too many things at once and I’m too little of time/pages. This was a love story, this was a social commentary, this was poetry (for the record, I also hated Romeo and Juliet, which was the western equivalent of this story). There were too many characters who didn’t have enough context for me to keep them straight—10 characters were introduced at a time, and then one or two names would have an actual part of the story line for a half page, and then that process would repeat with 10 new characters, and two or three would have a purpose, wash/rinse/repeat. I liked the end-no spoilers. It felt as though it brought together the reality of the hot-mess that was the whole first 99% of the book. I would not read this again, and I would not recommend it, unless someone absolutely loves the dumpster fire that was Romeo and Juliet, then I would say maybe read this.

ashwinn's review against another edition

2.0

My review:
http://daariga.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/the-girl-with-the-golden-parasol/

aartireadsalot's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence