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A review by __rusha
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
5.0
I don't know where to begin.
"Ghachar Ghochar" means tangled up beyond repair.
This is a story about an Indian Family consisting of parents, the uncle, the protagonist, his sister, and his wife, who rise to riches from poverty. It’s true what they say – it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us. When there’s only a little, it behaves meekly; when it grows, it becomes brash and has its way with us. It is also a story about every member of their family and how they fuck up life once they get the money they never had.
The ending shook me to the roots. My prediction about the ending is that he has blood in his hand as he is responsible for not speaking up when he thought it was not right the way Suhasini was treated. nor did he stand up for Anita as her husband. While both or one of these women might have been murdered by his family members.
Quotes from the book:
"We were thrown off balance by her love for one of us, and so we tore into her with such vengeance that she collapsed to the ground, sobbing."
"I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women."
"Our relationship with the things we accumulated around us became casual; we began treating them carelessly."
"Ghachar Ghochar" means tangled up beyond repair.
This is a story about an Indian Family consisting of parents, the uncle, the protagonist, his sister, and his wife, who rise to riches from poverty. It’s true what they say – it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us. When there’s only a little, it behaves meekly; when it grows, it becomes brash and has its way with us. It is also a story about every member of their family and how they fuck up life once they get the money they never had.
The ending shook me to the roots. My prediction about the ending is that he has blood in his hand as he is responsible for not speaking up when he thought it was not right the way Suhasini was treated. nor did he stand up for Anita as her husband. While both or one of these women might have been murdered by his family members.
Quotes from the book:
"We were thrown off balance by her love for one of us, and so we tore into her with such vengeance that she collapsed to the ground, sobbing."
"I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women."
"Our relationship with the things we accumulated around us became casual; we began treating them carelessly."