Mistress: A Novel (edit title)

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Liked It Rated 4 stars “I think this is Anita Nair's best book.. gives the reader a very good flavor of central Kerala !” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 4 stars

  “I think this is Anita Nair's best book.. gives the reader a very good flavor of central Kerala ! ”

  Ravi A V Kumar wrote this review Thursday, March 19 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 4 stars

  “A great book. This is my first of Anita Nair.. I have read her articles which appear in the Indian Express and am glad I chose her book. How well she has blended the 9 faces of Kathakali in this novel!”

  Viju wrote this review Tuesday, April 29 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “very true”

  shine v wrote this review Tuesday, December 11 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “probably her best book... well researched..”

  Sebastian M wrote this review Sunday, October 28 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 5 stars

  “This is Anita Nair's best. An endearing work of "mixing memory and desire", art and life. Set amidst the lush monsoon landscape of the Nila, it cuts across three generations of glory, guilt and the longing for redemption through art in life and life in art. A heterodiegetic perspective of inevitable shakles in life that ony art can redeem; either through the emotional exponential experience of a cathartic Kathakali experience, or the act of riding on and writing one's past and rewriting one's present. An excellent and mature work of intricate narrative nuances drawn through interior monologues that are Faulknerian stucture and typically Indian in style.”

  Roopkumar wrote this review Wednesday, September 26 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No