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Book ReviewsMandalay's Child |
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Book: Mandalay's Child
Written by: Prem Sharma |
Publisher: Bookwrights Press
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Simple and moving
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3 / 5
This book caught my attention as one of the very few books written on the traumatic events in India/Burma/Pakistan during the post ww ii era. I did not expect a lot from the faded cover and even the beginning - a somewhat prosaic/english-composition like narrative that moved but was not particularly great language wise. But the characters developed as i went along, and the writer has an amazing knack of weaving together their story, although it goes down stereotyped lanes sometimes. The essence of this book is the basic message of tolerance and simplicity of narrative on a difficult/complex subject. That in itself keeps one absorbed in it until the very last page.
I am sure that the story in this book is very touching
Rating:
5 / 5
I was born in Burma (post independence era) of Indian Descendants. I would love to read this book but at the same time I am concern that I might get too sad for it would remind me about the Japanese Occupation era in Burma that costed my grandfather's life (for no good reason). May be I will read it someday when I can handle the pain a little better.
Mandalay's Child
Rating:
5 / 5
Superb! An excellent story based on reality. You feel like if Dr. Sharma was at your side telling. Thinking....
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