Saturday, July 26, 2008

Midnight's Grandchildren

Have to talk about this book: well the whole world's talking. Again.

It is just so "talky", you get into it without realising what a thick book it is. And just when you are coursing through the noses of Aadam Aziz, oh yaara, you realise that there are so many other things in the world to do -like watching Man Vs. Wild on Discovery, eating the salted peanuts and smelling the toluene marker. But you forget everything and concentrate on the rotten, malodorous mouth of Tai the boatman, no yaara?

So this is how it is with SR- he will take you right into the cavernous, cucumberish noses and rotten mouths with misshapen teeth.

And you would find yourself revisiting your curiosities again.

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