Comments on: Slim Pickings http://www.stochastica.net/2006/05/15/slim-pickings/ It's got a point, if only you can find it... Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Karthik http://www.stochastica.net/2006/05/15/slim-pickings/comment-page-1/#comment-5018 Karthik Wed, 24 May 2006 09:50:52 +0000 http://www.stochastica.net/2006/05/15/slim-pickings/#comment-5018 Manish, It was a beautifully written book - and I guess what I was trying to say was that the floweriness of the language wasn't jarring at all. In The Girl though, it seemed at times that the language was the book. Perhaps I am being a bit unfair to Sonia when I compare her book with one of the better Desi books in quite some time, but I read the two back to back and the difference was striking. Manish,

It was a beautifully written book – and I guess what I was trying to say was that the floweriness of the language wasn’t jarring at all. In The Girl though, it seemed at times that the language was the book.

Perhaps I am being a bit unfair to Sonia when I compare her book with one of the better Desi books in quite some time, but I read the two back to back and the difference was striking.

]]> By: manish http://www.stochastica.net/2006/05/15/slim-pickings/comment-page-1/#comment-5017 manish Wed, 24 May 2006 09:39:54 +0000 http://www.stochastica.net/2006/05/15/slim-pickings/#comment-5017 <em>Patna Roughcut</em> was itself quite flowery, methinks (and lovely). Patna Roughcut was itself quite flowery, methinks (and lovely).

]]> By: Karthik http://www.stochastica.net/2006/05/15/slim-pickings/comment-page-1/#comment-4431 Karthik Wed, 17 May 2006 14:08:28 +0000 http://www.stochastica.net/2006/05/15/slim-pickings/#comment-4431 DoZ, Havent read Amsterdam, but after Saturday... I am smitten by McEwan. And I doubt the popularity outside India thing... it might happen, but I would be very, very surprised if it did. DoZ, Havent read Amsterdam, but after Saturday… I am smitten by McEwan.

And I doubt the popularity outside India thing… it might happen, but I would be very, very surprised if it did.

]]> By: DesiPundit » Reviewing The Girl http://www.stochastica.net/2006/05/15/slim-pickings/comment-page-1/#comment-4352 DesiPundit » Reviewing The Girl Tue, 16 May 2006 21:07:22 +0000 http://www.stochastica.net/2006/05/15/slim-pickings/#comment-4352 [...] Etcetera reviews Sonia Faleiro’s book And so we get plenty of wordplay and descriptive detail. Nothing is too insignificant to be let off without a metaphor or two, ranging from the mildly amusing to dangerously cliched. Thus we have the earth “encrusting the casket like pastry bubbling into hardness,” a bar and its location as mismatched as “vegetarianism and a Goan” and as “profoundly antipodean” as the “Rua’s many little old ladies and the one young lady who lived opposite Breto’s in a stone mansion, and many years later flung herself into the well in the corner of her garden.” [...] [...] Etcetera reviews Sonia Faleiro’s book And so we get plenty of wordplay and descriptive detail. Nothing is too insignificant to be let off without a metaphor or two, ranging from the mildly amusing to dangerously cliched. Thus we have the earth “encrusting the casket like pastry bubbling into hardness,” a bar and its location as mismatched as “vegetarianism and a Goan” and as “profoundly antipodean” as the “Rua’s many little old ladies and the one young lady who lived opposite Breto’s in a stone mansion, and many years later flung herself into the well in the corner of her garden.” [...]

]]> By: DoZ http://www.stochastica.net/2006/05/15/slim-pickings/comment-page-1/#comment-4341 DoZ Tue, 16 May 2006 18:36:58 +0000 http://www.stochastica.net/2006/05/15/slim-pickings/#comment-4341 Hmm...The plot reminds me of McEwan's Amsterdam - one woman who kills herself, her two lovers (only in McEwan's case, there's also a husband)...About Faleiro - I wouldn't be surprised if the novel becomes popular outside India. It does seem to carry an undeniable whiff of 'exotic India' about it. Hmm…The plot reminds me of McEwan’s Amsterdam – one woman who kills herself, her two lovers (only in McEwan’s case, there’s also a husband)…About Faleiro – I wouldn’t be surprised if the novel becomes popular outside India. It does seem to carry an undeniable whiff of ‘exotic India’ about it.

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