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Title: Bombay Talkie by Ameena Meer, Ira Silverberg ISBN: 1-85242-325-0 Publisher: Serpent's Tail Pub. Date: July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent page-turner with bicultural insights
Comment: This is a breezy popular novel and great read with many insights into navigating the conflicts of Indian-American identity. An Indian-American returns to India and learns more about her country and herself. The story moves fast and entertainingly, and its affecting sensational content dramatises our understanding of the character's conflicts with superb insight. Such cross-cultural differences as sexual identity and male-female relationships are delineated with acuity and power. A scene of widow-burning, for example, brings home the senseless cruelty of this Indian practise with searing effect. The novel's depiction of upper-class dilemmas -- the worlds it reveals are those of the affluent well-born -- are particularly well-drawn, with appealing and entertaining wit. A must-read.
Rating: 3
Summary: Judgemental yet entertaining
Comment: This book explores the lives of the children of two Indian Muslim brothers - one a famous Bollywood actor/lip syncer and the other, a professional settled in Boston. The set up and the parallel stories made the book a page turner but ultimately the characters were one dimensional and unrealistic. Also, the white/American characters are particularly badly written (they're portrayed as culture-less party boys and girls). For more interesting Pan-South Asian stories about those who grew up outside of India, try Meera Syal's books.
Rating: 1
Summary: Worst book by Indian author ever read
Comment: I've read several books by Indian authors and I am also of Indian descent, and I can say unequivocally that this is the worst book with an Indian theme that I have ever read. First it is incoherently paced with a lot of unnecessary coincidence and forced dialogue. The characters are not well defined, and new characters are either introduced or killed based on what is convenient for the plot. I also believe it is an inaccurate depiction of Indian life as well as growing up with Indian parents in the US. There is no sort of resolution in the book - no sense of what the characters have learned, how they've grown, what has changed them. All we know is that the central character is happy to be back in the US but annoyed that her ex-boyfriend has moved on.
If you want to read a truly good book that has Indian life and community as its backdrop, try Jhumpa Lahiri, or Chitra Divakaruni, or Manil Suri, or Rohinton Mistry, or the countless other Indian actors who deserve to be published far more than Ameena Meer
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Title: Kartography by Kamila Shamsie ISBN: 0151010102 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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