Title: disappointing ...
Product review: Three attempts at reading this book have failed; it's hard to get beyond a certain point. It's undeniably clever (i.e., "read more of me, aren't I clever and academic"), and skipping forward beyond the point where I stopped, much diligent research is evident. However, for those of us who don't speak the language, it's annoying having to guess what the regional words lavishly interspersed throughout the text represent. The "voice" is too contrived -- the constant striving for clever effect is what spoiled it for me. I'm so disappointed since I personally enjoy the India of Ruth Prawar Jhabwala and Satjajit Ray, and had been looking so forward to this one.
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