Title: No holds barred look at the dark side of family life
Product review: If we are to believe mainstream cinema, family life is all gung-ho where everybody loves everybody. Anyone with half-a-brain knows that this glosses over the real complexities of blood-relationships all of us experience.'The Last Burden' gives sharp insight into middle-class Indian family life (albeit in an acerbic manner) and partly explains why the majority of populace abandoned the traditional joint family structure in favor of a nuclear one. All the intricacies that inhabit this world be it financial pressure, lost love, unwanted but unavoidable obligations are all given a free rein.IMO, this book is an unsung classic of Indian literature in English and I highly recommend it if you are in the mood for a serious and real-life subject.
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