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Title: Riot: A Love Story by Shashi Tharoor ISBN: 1-55970-645-7 Publisher: Arcade Publishing Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An Intellectually Stimulating Read .
Comment: Shashi Tharoor ( of the Great Indian Novel, Show Business fame ) experiments with the narrative form in his new novel; Riot .
It tells the story of Priscilla Hart, a 24 year old American research student , who is murdered in a communal riot in the back of the beyond district of Zalilgarh in Northern India in 1989.
Tharoor uses news paper reports, transcripts of interviews , pages from a personal scrapbook to trace the life and the events surrounding the murder of the Ms Hart.
Tharoor uses this backdrop to put the Indian brand of "secularism" in perspective and make some telling comments on the social , cultural and political fabric of the country.
Tharoor uses strong characterization....his constuction of Lakshman , the District Collector is a very solid case in point. He is founded as a typical Tamilian Brahmin bureaucrat, just, idealistic, but one who perfoms within the system. He is a closet writer and is prone to using Wilde-isms to embellish his point of views. He has his dreams , some of which take him away from the "safe" and "powerful" position of being the DC to having a dangreous sexual alliance and an imagined future with the Young american...
The narrative as mentioned ealrier is fairly uniquely structured as until the end the reader is kept guessing upon what the "truth" is...
Strongly recomended as a intellectually stimulating read and perspective widening read...
Rating: 5
Summary: Riot: Excellent edutainment
Comment: Riot: Excellent edutainment
Priscilla Hart, a young American woman who suffers from the "guilty WASP" syndrome is murdered in India during a religious riot. Her murder provides the framework that allows the writer, Shashi Tharoor, to explore religion, Hindu-Muslim relations, Indian politics, western companies entering India and other related topics about the Subcontinent. This book provides a great primer to understanding these topics and allows you to springboard further into these pressing issues for India. One downside, albeit minor, is that some of the material expressed in this book (views on religion, Coca Colonization, etc.) has been covered at greater lengths, especially in Tharoor's work, India: From Midnight to Millennium.
But the book is not just an encapsulated India lesson. It is also a passionate love story (in many regards - the obvious male-female love story, parental love, love of country, etc.). Tharoor is a master of the English language and his exact words invoke a sense that you are actually there in India, enjoying the scenery and the characters that inhabit it. If you read this novel, you will not be disappointed, but rather entertained with a little enlightenment.
Rating: 2
Summary: A Below Average Affair
Comment: Having read so much about the book and its subject matter before reading, I must say I was disappointed with the book after I read it. Shashi Tharoor seems to want to please his audience and stick to tradition much like his character Lakshman by incorporating the nine-elements (love, hate, disgust, anger, laugh, ...) of story telling. The problem is he has spent too much time exploring love and not enough on the other elements. At times, Mr. Tharoor appeared eager to bringout all issues in India namely, women's rights, population and birth-control, separationism/terrorism and religious fervorism and seems to have lost focus. The book is written for international audience and serves the purpose of introducing multi-faceted India to a foreigner.
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