Review: Not For Me
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
I bought the book on the strength of the author's name, hoping for greatness. The idea of a double narrative more than 50 years apart intrigued me and I kept hoping. Skipping from the 1948 partition to present day and back was a wonderful idea, but it fell flat for me. I did not know anything about the horrors of partition, so I learned something from this book. Unfortunately, the editing and the formatting left me cold. There were words missing and whole sections were blank indicating that editing had taken place but the formatting had not compensated for it. The sections describing the Indian scenery were great, but Indian culture could have been made clearer to this Western reader.