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Someone Else's Garden (2011)

by Dipika Rai(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062000357 (ISBN13: 9780062000354)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: I loved this book and cried a few times while reading it. I read it on the heels of a thousand splendid suns so i was already in the genre of bad, abusive marriage and exploited women.... This one was more lyrical and enjoyable to read. Though i knew very little about the men who were the abusive husbands, i understood them better in their cultural context here... The husband in hosseini's book was also a product of his culture, but as a reader i just disliked him as a person and judged him as a person more. I also really appreciated the philosophical elements in the character of lokend.
review 2: The story of a woman in rural India with caste and traditions clinging to her, has she to simply accept her role as a woman or to strike out against oppression and st... moreill strife for acceptance in her community?The story unfolds slowly and iniiitially the dynamics of the characters in The Big House are not apparent... but halfway thru the pieces come together more completely...Am taken up with this part:Life tolerates no excuses,it only recognises finality, an exact computation. And in her life of fixed paths she has dreamed up many final reckonings. But reality is not an intuition, it isnt a thought or even a fruition of the past, it is a wilful creature aimless in its wondering. Acceptance is the only defence, the only sanctuary left to her less

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