Oct 09, 2015 11:12 AM
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A brilliant novel in two sections, moving from the heart of an affectionate Indian family unit, with its limitations and prejuices, its boisterous warmth and arousing valuation for sustenance, to the cool focal point of an American family, with its flexibility and unusually self-denying states of mind to eating.
The main area of the book is set in India, and set up around Uma, a plain, bothered at girl. Her life appears to be really depressing without the alternative of a spouse for whom she can decorate his notoriety. Again and again, we see Uma being rejected and enduring the agonies of being an Indian lady who is not picked as a wife of a man, but then, Desai likewise sets this disgrace in the midst of the lives of other ladies who have been offered and are definitely not glad. In one case, what was viewed as a perfect marriage, is later to be seen as a devastatingly frightful one.
Segment two is much shorter, yet bases on the family's star, Arun, who is in the United States heading off to college. You get the feeling that this young fellow is horrendously harried, and despondent with his life, paying little mind to where he's found. Not the slightest bit do you see him in control of his own life, yet like his sister, is all that much being controlled by the wishes and longings of his family, folks, and society.
Desai's novel demonstrat to us that all societies can and put weights on us to accomplish or be things that we could conceivably wish for. In a genuine sense, the novel speaks the truth opportunities longed for, yet not seen.
