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sidharthan 's review for:
Ghachar Ghochar
by Vivek Shanbhag
A very quick and a very good read.
The characters, the setting and the story all seem very next-door - eerily so. I think this is a very quintessential Indian work of writing. I don't think other people would get this book as much as we would - everything from the middle-class mentality to the nouveau rich beahaviour rings a bell. These things are woven around our culture.
I also realised how this whole story can be a very dramatic masala movie- in fact, there may already be some version of it out there. So it is laudatory that the author made it so subtle and smooth. Great work of writing and translation. I look forward to reading more of Shanbag!
The characters, the setting and the story all seem very next-door - eerily so. I think this is a very quintessential Indian work of writing. I don't think other people would get this book as much as we would - everything from the middle-class mentality to the nouveau rich beahaviour rings a bell. These things are woven around our culture.
I also realised how this whole story can be a very dramatic masala movie- in fact, there may already be some version of it out there. So it is laudatory that the author made it so subtle and smooth. Great work of writing and translation. I look forward to reading more of Shanbag!