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Book ReviewsShadow Lines |
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Book: Shadow Lines
Written by: Amitav Ghosh |
Publisher: South Asia Books
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5
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Not upto par
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3 / 5
I wanted to read this book as it was being praised as a 'great partition novel' and I had previously read a couple of novels set during the independence of bangladesh. However, this book turned out to be more of a love story, with very little mention of the partition of Bangladesh almost till the very end. However for the most part, it's a well written novel.
Ghosh's best
Rating:
5 / 5
A wonderfully nostalgic tale of growing up in Calcutta, going to college in London, and unrequited love in between.
Also depicts the tragedy of the Indian Hindu-Muslim riots of the sixties. Read it!
mind blowing!
Rating:
5 / 5
If I have to name the singlemost life altering reading experience, The Shadow Lines will be it. Given the present political situation, every Indian with even half a claim at intelligence must read this book. But despite its grounding in politics and history, the story is a most personal account of a little boy's life who drifts back and forth between Calcutta and Dhaka...and his journey where he encounters lines and barriers of all kinds, only to find that they're all but...shadow lines. Amitav Ghosh writes with a flair and a command over the language that most other authors can only dream of.
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