Title: Real; evoking memories, a Sikh family depicted very well
Product review: The lives, aspirations, compromises, hypocracy, nobility of the many people is depicted in a lush manner. The culture, particularly of the Sikhs from the Rawalpindi area, during the pre-1947 partition days is narrated very well. The Sikh woman's point of view, raised in a joint-family, dowry-burdened context of India, very rare to find in English literature, is a treat.My one peeve is that the novel gets lost in itself near the end. The self-pity gets to be a bit suffocating, yet the author, bravely, does not succumb to a pat cliche end.The choice of vernacular lends the honesty to the landscape.
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