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Title: A thin year for the Booker
Review: Don't read the following if plot spoilers bother you.The one won the Booker Prize in 1975. Must have been a thin year. Fascinating step-grandmother goes to colonial India in the 20s with her husband, meets charming yet mysterious prince, gets knocked up, has an abortion, runs off with him. Not-so-fascinating step-granddaughter goes to independent India in the 70s alone, meets not charming and unmysterious clerk, gets knocked up, doesn't have an abortion, runs off alone. Told in parallel plot lines because, well, I'm not sure. The writing is unexceptional, the characterization even less so. Pat. Very pat.Why sacrifice all drama, suspense, and interest in the plot? To seem more "literary"? To illustrate how deep the feeling and dilemmas of their characters are? Why characters of such thin merit, so thinly explored? Who knows.
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