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Vansa
A Married Woman | Manju Kapur
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“Astha was brought up properly, as befits a woman, with large supplements of fear. One slip might find her alone, vulnerable and unprotected. The infinite ways in which she could be harmed were not specified, but Astha absorbed them through her skin, and ever after was drawn to the safe and secure.”This excellent opening paragraph just gets more excellent.Can't recommend enough.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7083955636

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danx
A Backward Place | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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I‘ve really fallen behind in logging my reads - again! Enjoyed this window into a place, time, situation.. I really hope their journey to the big city worked out, but I suspect it won‘t be all fame and money. Val was so frustrating!

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Graywacke
Fasting, Feasting | Anita Desai
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A long look at the mixture of cultural elements in lawyer‘s family in some unspecified village outside Dehli. And then a depressing parallel in Massachusetts. The 1st hundred pages are vibrant and dynamic and I truly loved reading them. The fun fades and purpose is curious. But I enjoyed the book overall.

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Graywacke
Fasting, Feasting | Anita Desai
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My next book. I started this morning

Tamra Sounds like a good read - stacked! 5mo
Graywacke @Tamra 1st 50 pages have been thoroughly entertaining. The book has life. 5mo
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rwmg
The Home and the World | Rabindranath Tagore
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When Bimila is encouraged by her husband Nikhil to exercise more freedom than is usual for a woman of her status in Bengal in the first decade of the 20th century, she comes under the influence of Nikhil's friend Sandip, a charismatic radical nationalist.

Although I found it a bit heavy-going at times, especially in the more rhetorical passages, I kept reading, fascinated to see how events would play out.

dabbe Your pick is on the spreadsheet! 🤩 9mo
Cuilin Sounds like a really great read. ✅🎉 9mo
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rwmg
The Home and the World | Rabindranath Tagore
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dabbe Holy guacamole, Batman! 😱 9mo
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rwmg
The Home and the World | Rabindranath Tagore
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Abailliekaras
Pyre | Perumal Murugan
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A dark novel about two newlyweds who are spurned by the rural villagers because of the caste difference. Very disturbing as a portrayal of the caste system discrimination, narrow-mindedness & violence. The city which welcomes all is a haven by contrast. But I also found the marriage controlling (he ignores her plea to go home). The effect was a horrifying book told in a fairytale style with villains, a complicit groom & a damsel in distress.

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Sapphire
Fire on the Mountain | Anita Desai
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This one is not my favorite of “Tookies short perfect novels” that I have read so far, but I do see why it‘s on the list. The end did quite literally take my breath away.

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Sapphire
Fire on the Mountain | Anita Desai
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Weekend reading is to make progress on working my way through the character Tookie‘s “short perfect novels” list in Erdrich‘s The Sentence. This will be #8 of 12.

Soubhiville Oh cool! I made a reading list from her recs, but I don‘t know if I‘ve gone back to follow up on any of them. 🙂📚 1y
Sapphire @Soubhiville I made it a personal challenge on StoryGraph so I wouldn‘t forget! It‘s taking awhile. This one and the Turgev were a bit harder to find. The only one I haven‘t really embraced (it‘s hard to say like they are all beautifully written but all very dark) is Mrs Dalloway, but I will go back for that one. I am also using most of these for #192025 challenge as well 1y
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