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A review by baibhabi
The Heart Asks Pleasure First by Karuna Ezara Parikh
emotional
reflective
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
This is one of those books that I accidentally came across and then fell in love with. I must say, if I hadn't brought it home, I would have missed out on so much!
The Heart Asks Pleasure First by Karuna Ezara Parikh tells the story of Aaftab, a young lawyer from Pakistan and Daya, a student of ballet from India and how they fall in love, devastatingly. With them, we read the story of the people around them; the story of Daya's parents Asha and Gyan, the story of their friend Wasim, the story of Kamla and the sunflowers, of Osama and the fallen towers. We read through Wasim's love for collective nouns and Aaftab's dilemma between love and religion.
The book paves it's way through characters tied together with Al-Khayal and Faiz's poems and Mohammad Rafi and Farida Khanum's songs yet divided by hatred and two towers. This is one book I have become intrigued by reading and after a long time, I have found a book that becomes the voice in me.
A book filled with love, loss, hatred, religions and poetries, it has left me spellbound. It is the bowl of water that I have become flowers fallen from a tree for. May this book find you and may you devastatingly fall in love.
The Heart Asks Pleasure First by Karuna Ezara Parikh tells the story of Aaftab, a young lawyer from Pakistan and Daya, a student of ballet from India and how they fall in love, devastatingly. With them, we read the story of the people around them; the story of Daya's parents Asha and Gyan, the story of their friend Wasim, the story of Kamla and the sunflowers, of Osama and the fallen towers. We read through Wasim's love for collective nouns and Aaftab's dilemma between love and religion.
The book paves it's way through characters tied together with Al-Khayal and Faiz's poems and Mohammad Rafi and Farida Khanum's songs yet divided by hatred and two towers. This is one book I have become intrigued by reading and after a long time, I have found a book that becomes the voice in me.
A book filled with love, loss, hatred, religions and poetries, it has left me spellbound. It is the bowl of water that I have become flowers fallen from a tree for. May this book find you and may you devastatingly fall in love.