This book will definitely stay with me for a long time, it is one book I will be recommending to close friends. Another Indian book, though, which I have read is 'Midnight's children' by Salman Rushdie. Also, I was listening to the radio yesterday. The Yes, Mary, I agree. Om, Ishvar and Dina all have loved ones who suffered violent deaths, they all have been homeless, or on the brink thereof.
Poverty is their life partner.
Maneck, on the other hand, has opportunity. Then he is sent to college when the store's prospects don't look so good. Compared to the horrible impovershment the others have endured, Maneck's life is cushy. Yet everything is relative. Maneck suffers in a more subtle, insiduous way.