People like stories in all shapes and sizes. Now I haven’t really fallen into Neel Mukherjee’s book yet, so no judgement on the quality of writing or storytelling yet (however, in the first 20-30 pages I’ve had to refer to the family tree 10 times to understand the 500 characters in the novel.) - but why oh why must Indian writing in English be so bloody pretentious.Ī story is a story is a story. Guess which book I preferred? The Pretence of Indian Writing in English The second book was critically acclaimed The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee, a complex, intricate and frankly convoluted Indian saga, nominated for the Man Booker, a story prolonged to almost 500 pages.
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