Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Citizen of the World


The Trib has an article on Vikram Chandra, who's in our city today promoting his new book, Sacred Games.


It's called Citizen of the World.


From the article:


It is, in various ways, a thriller, a police procedural, a mystery and a traditional Indian epic, all wrapped up in the elegant, nuanced language of a literary novel. It has been called Dickensian and labeled a South Asian version of Mario Puzo's "The Godfather."



"In a sense, reading is all about that. When we read a book, we read along, but we're also looking for structure, for resonances and rhythms. Whenever you are reading anything, but especially a novel, you, in a sense, become a detective, trying to figure out that world." (link)



I'm looking forward to reading this book soon, although seeing that it is some 900 pages long, I'm thinking it'll be awhile until I get around to it!


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Thursday, January 18, 2007

My new distraction

Do you ever get so into reading a book ,that you forget to do anything else? You simply don't want to do anything else??


I'm currently reading Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found and I can't put it down!!! It's so damn addicting. All the underworld stories and personal experiences are extremely riveting. I'm only about half way into the book, but I'm really liking it so far. Have any of you read it? If not, I urge you to do so. Having only been to certain parts of Bombay on my family trips, I never saw nor experienced the many sides of this city so clearly written about in this book. It makes me want to take a trip back to Bombay now, just to see and feel and hear all the stuff that I apparently missed out or was completely ignorant of in my previous trips.

If nothing else, this book is turning out to be a Maximum (and a welcome) distraction indeed!

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