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My Kind Of Girl (1951)

by Buddhadeva Bose(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0982624611 (ISBN13: 9780982624616)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Archipelago

review 1: My Kind of Girl is ok -- a very mild, unassuming set of stories that four men stuck in a train station share to pass the time during a long, cold night. The book was originally published in 1951 & the almost knight-like quality of putting women on a pedestal from afar is certainly reflected in the modest stories these men tell, stories prompted by them seeing a couple in love, stories they share of some type of love from their own pasts. Supposedly Bose was/is considered one of the great talents of Bengali literature, but while I thought the stories were fine, I wonder if something wasn't lost in translation just a bit? There just wasn't a spark there for me.... I had hoped to like it more than I did. In the end, I'll say it is a solid 3 star book; I'm glad to have read so... moremething by a Bengali author, the tales were mildly interesting, but there was no great pull for me.
review 2: A quiet, lovely stories-on-a-theme book from India. Stuck in a train depot on a cold night, four middle aged men each recount the tale of a girl from their youth, that One Girl that each of them could never forget. As a whole, the book achieves a vivid, wistful, bittersweet tone. The stories--dealing with memories of adolescence and early adulthood years--all center on the conflict between the Ideal and the Real, on the “mystery of womanhood,” and on those turning-point decisions, roads that are memorable because they were taken or not, in one’s past. (The plots involve a fair number of misunderstandings and lack of nerve.) Each of the men gained access, for a short time, to an exceptional window on womanhood, and in each case they came away from it only more mired in enigma and emotional mysticism than before. less

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