A sprawling and self-indulgent feast of family and social interactions that wonderfully illuminate the Indian cultural, social, and political landscape of 1952. Religious tensions, urdu poetry and music, family hierarchy and mating rituals and challenges, religious tolerance and intolerance interwoven with politics, the legacy of the Indian aristocracies and the emerging aristocracies within bureaucratic universities and parliaments. There is ample space for everything in a book that is said to be the longest single volume novel in the English language.
The size is not for the faint hearted, and little is lost by using "speed reading" techniques.
A rich treasure.
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