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“That’s the word! Untouchable!”

Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand

February 6, 2021 by tiny_bookbot 2 Comments

This semester, I’m teaching a course on global anglophone literature, i.e. literature written in English that’s neither British, Irish, nor American. (Nor, for that matter, Canadian, Australian, or New Zealander, much as I wanted them! And not quite postcolonial fiction, since our first three novels are still within the late colonial period.) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable, originally published in 1935, was the first novel we covered for the class (it narrowly edged out Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi), and what a beautiful entry into the subject it […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: historical fiction, India, modernism, mulk raj anand

tiny_bookbot's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: historical fiction, India, modernism, mulk raj anand ·
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The Marriage Trap

The Widows of Malabar Hill: A Perveen Mistry Novel Book 1 by Sujata Massey

May 15, 2019 by ElCicco 7 Comments

According to the book jacket, this is “a mystery of 1920s India” and that was enough to make me very curious. “The Widows of Malabar Hill” is a murder mystery, and a fine one at that, but it is also a picture of Bombay (not sure why it’s Bombay and not Mumbai) shortly after WWI from the point of view of a young Parsi woman named Perveen Mistry. Through her, Sujata Massey immerses the reader in a world that straddles the traditional and the modern. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cbr11, ElCicco, Fiction, India, mystery, ReadWomen, Sujata Massey, The Widows of Malabar Hill

ElCicco's CBR11 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cbr11, ElCicco, Fiction, India, mystery, ReadWomen, Sujata Massey, The Widows of Malabar Hill ·
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Freedom and Chains

Chained by Lynne Kelly

August 27, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This is my Backlog book. I have been meaning to read this book for a while now. Once I started it, I realized I was rereading it. Which, I will say, fits this because I had forgotten about this gem called Chained by Lynne Kelly. To work off a debt, Hastin leaves his village in India to work as an elephant keeper for a man who wants to restart his circus. Innocent Hastin only sees a way to help his mother and ill sister, not […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Backlog, cbr10bingo, child workers, Circus, Elephants, India, Lynne Kelly, poor, Slavery, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:322 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Backlog, cbr10bingo, child workers, Circus, Elephants, India, Lynne Kelly, poor, Slavery, Social Themes ·
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A primer in immigration and the understanding of other: a second look at The Namesake

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

August 8, 2018 by ardaigle 1 Comment

August 2018 Review The Schaumburg library chose this book for a communitywide book for the fall, and thus it is also on my book club list. I read it five years back but decided to give it another go to have a refresher before the discussion. This go round, I “read” the audio format. First of all, I am SO PUMPED to live in a place that picked such a book to foist on the community. What an enlightening and refreshing book. It’s almost a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: immigrant experience, India, Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

ardaigle's CBR10 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: immigrant experience, India, Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake ·
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My first LOVE of the year

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

January 11, 2018 by lowercasesee 1 Comment

 Y’all, I don’t really know where to start with this book. I loved it. And I don’t fully understand what I read? I devoured every word but also had a tough time picking it back up after I’d put it down. It was amazing and I am going to have a very hard time telling you why. I did not know the backstory on this one until I was almost through, but twenty years ago, the author Arundhati Roy broke onto the scene with her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Arundhati Roy, India, Kashmir, Pakistan

lowercasesee's CBR10 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Arundhati Roy, India, Kashmir, Pakistan ·
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