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Custody (2010)

by Manju Kapur(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 7

ISBN

0571274021 (ISBN13: 9780571274024)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Faber & Faber

review 1: The beauty of Kapur's writing lies in her spot-on expression of the emotions usually felt by middle class Indian families. The book keeps you riveted to the end with good characterisation and heavy drama. Another strong point of Kapur's narrative is that she neither idolises nor vilifies any of the characters- leaving the reader free to choose sides or more realistically come to the conclusion that human nature is necessarily coloured in shades of grey. An enjoyable and interesting read.
review 2: A decent read about the repercussions of divorce when the children become pawns between the warring parents. Decently written, though cliched, was never boring yet not as thought provoking as it might have set out to be. Manju Kapur is an interesting writer of lives i... moren North India - here Delhi, a life, a society,a community I have seen closely and understand well. An obvious gaffe in the very beginning of the book is though the story starts off from the year 1998, it immediately mentions of the characters going to meet Hindi film star Hrithik Roshan at an event. Hrithik Roshan became known to everyone only from the year 2000 onwards. This particular edition I picked up from Random House India, has multiple pages turned upside down and put across in random order, such that I had to search for each individual page for a certain portion of the book. Inconvenient. less

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