When I finished reading this book, I didn’t want to read anything else for a few weeks. Why? Well it’s like when you eat something that’s so tasty, you don’t want to eat anything else, so that the taste of your favorite food remains in your mouth.
I can’t imagine how anybody can dislike this book.
Right from the first page it grips you and then refuses to let you go. You spend all your time either reading it or thinking about it when you aren’t reading it.
The characters are beautifully developed. The story is narrated with no sense of time, i.e. the past and the present are all mixed up, so you suddenly read about the twins as grown ups and then about them as kids. It takes a few pages to settle down into this rhythm, but it’s worth it.
The absolute beauty of this book is that though you know the ending, right at the beginning (since the past & present are mixed up) you still read on... hungry for more, hungry to find out why all of it happened.
You will read about certain tragedies in the beginning which won’t affect you because you don’t know the characters that well & then as you get to know them, you feel a sense of dread, knowing what lies in store for them.
Is it just me or is this one of the finest books ever written?
Arundhati, PLEASE write more!