marcynewman 's review for:

Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man by U. R. Ananthamurthy

3.0

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It's true that reading Indian literature in translation is radically different from Indian literature composed in English and often with a foreign audience in mind. This novel is beautiful and powerful, but also quite hard to comprehend if one hasn't lived in India, I suspect. The nuances and issues that emerge around caste and what it means to be a brahmin are quite complex. That said, it is beautifully rendered by author and translator alike.