The boss has bought me The Inheritance of Loss to review. This cannot be a good thing. There are far too many cross-cultural / Indo-UK/US hybrid / migratory / postcolonial novels, most of whom are merely products of clever marketing. Refer Chitra Divakaruni. Plus, I dislike Anita Desai's sappy tales and I disliked somewhat Kiran Desai's earlier book - Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Too much India exoticising. It appears that if we don't have elephants and fakirs, let us have monkeys, mad wives and seers.
The burning question now is, how shall i write a truthful review without being too acerbic?
5 comments:
once you start writing go with the flow...i'm sure ur gonna do a great job of it, glad to see you blogging again :D
Thengyew sire for your fust comment number vun it is
whats wrong with ascerbic?
I'm sick of the trendy firangi desis exoticising everything.
hi hi,
hmm, perhaps it shoudn't be from ur personal point of view, but rather lay out facts neatly for the readers to understand ;)
so u get to be truthful and be safe hehe.
wow you have labels and all for your posts. such an organised girl you are.
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