The Twentieth WifeIndu Sundaresan2002Harper Collinspp. 374 The twentieth wife covers the story of Nurjahan’s marriage to Salim. Somewhere in between is the story of deceit and strained father and son relationships, of Akbar and Salim and Salim and his sons. The hunger for power in almost all the men in the story is barely tolerable….
Sphinx Robin Cook 1979 Signet pp. 320 This book came as a total surprise. I was so amazed by the first fifty pages that I checked the main plot online several times to see if I was reading some fake copy of the book. Goes to show how much I have categorised Cook’s writing in…
The Unknown Indians (People who Quietly Explored the World) Subhadra Sen Gupta 2016 Rupa pp. 83 This is the first time that I have come across Gupta’s writings and I am left wondering why. Maybe because I have long stopped spending time in sections carrying books for children. When we think of books for children,…
Half of a Yellow SunChimamanda Ngozi Adichie2007 (first published 2006)Harper Perennialpp. 433Adichie writes about the forgotten civil war in Biafra and the making of ‘united’ Nigeria. The story revolves around the lives of twin sisters of upper middle class Igbo family. A life spent in realising and living the contrast between the haves of middle…
