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A review by richa087
Home by Salman Rushdie
4.0
Me and my brother have been trying to read Rushdie since we were kids. I seriously do not know why we tried to read him in our kidhood but we did. And of course, we both could never digest his books. We just could not. The language was tough, the flow of his writing was non-linear, he described almost EVERY aspect of everything mentioned in his book in DETAIL (I could not go beyond the chapter on the nose in The Midnight's Children) and obviously, it was too much for our kiddy brains to comprehend. So, we started looking for his sleek-est works thinking maybe we can understand those ones but wow, we underestimated this man! His thin books were more complex and we just could not gauge his thoughts! This tiny book made its way to my collection during the course of that idea and I got introduced to the 'worlds and words of Rushdie'.
All my pre-conceived bitterly held notions of Rushdie's writing came apart at the seams when I read this compilation of 4 excerpts from different works on the theme of Home. He writes about what Home means to him, how the change in landscapes and territories changed him and his views on his homeland, what it means to be an immigrant, how he could not accept his father's decision to move across the border, how he was treated as an outsider in his country and as an outsider in the UK, how he navigated the life of an expat and how he holds close his right to form opinions and comment on the occurrences of his nation even if he stays abroad. His writing is like a maze, he does not clearly state what he is trying to say, rather he will give you examples, take you back in the past, throw you in the future and then pull you back to the present. But, he makes this temporal ride, a hell of an enjoyable, exhilarating roller coaster.
This makes me want to pick up my Rushdie's books, the sleek and the thick ones and explore why the world loves him. To reading more of Rushdie in years to come.
All my pre-conceived bitterly held notions of Rushdie's writing came apart at the seams when I read this compilation of 4 excerpts from different works on the theme of Home. He writes about what Home means to him, how the change in landscapes and territories changed him and his views on his homeland, what it means to be an immigrant, how he could not accept his father's decision to move across the border, how he was treated as an outsider in his country and as an outsider in the UK, how he navigated the life of an expat and how he holds close his right to form opinions and comment on the occurrences of his nation even if he stays abroad. His writing is like a maze, he does not clearly state what he is trying to say, rather he will give you examples, take you back in the past, throw you in the future and then pull you back to the present. But, he makes this temporal ride, a hell of an enjoyable, exhilarating roller coaster.
This makes me want to pick up my Rushdie's books, the sleek and the thick ones and explore why the world loves him. To reading more of Rushdie in years to come.