“Definitely a great book! It captures the hypocrisy of the post partition era and the diminishing line between nationalism and patriotism. It also explores how political boundaries are limited to the physical world and does not impact the personal space in which an individual chooses to be. The frequent shift between Calcutta , London and at some places Bangladesh results in the union of a context emotions. The artistry of Amitabh Ghosh to diminish the geographical, cultural, social and poitical boundaries through the continous shift in the temporal space marks genius of this work.”
posted Monday, August 27 2007