Title: Stylistic Weakness
Product review: I think that this novel would have been greatly improved by reduction from 500 - plus pages to 300 or fewer. I appreciate that the author is trying to convey both the political background to the Partition, and the treatment of women in a patriarchal society, as well as telling the story of certain individuals. However, I often found the long-winded narrative tedious,and the references to a multitude of named characters highly confusing. Unlike many other Indian novels I've read, this one did not capture my imagination. Characters were not realized in depth, atmosphere was lacking, and plot was flat. It doesn't begin to compare with Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things", a novel that stayed in my mind for weeks.
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