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Custody. Manju Kapur (2010)

by Manju Kapur(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 57

ISBN

0571274048 (ISBN13: 9780571274048)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Faber & Faber

review 1: The Manju Kapoor novel must have been very difficult to write. To juggle among so many characters, even the minor ones, with conflicting points of views, and then to present them unbiased as complex human beings, is a task indeed. It is a monumental achievement. Yet as you finish the book, you wonder if the second half of the book still needed some work, when the narrative goes to every direction, without warning. The basic story is simple. A Delhi couple separates after the beautiful wife falls in love with the husband’s boss. Apart from the couple’s ego, what makes the matter complicated is the two young children. Thus, begins the battle for custody.Finally, in her telling of the legal tangles and emotional turmoil of her characters, Kapoor tries hard to be impartial... more and she almost succeeds. And, how she portrays Delhi!
review 2: Readable story. Sad but not totally heart breaking. Characters remind us of stereotypes characters but author's balanced approach help us see various angles of the same stereo types. Light narrative, perhaps even verbose. The book could have been crisper and thus made shorter by perhaps 25% to 300 pages as compared to its 400 pages size. Marriage, divorce, remarriage, finding one's identity in the process the characters seems to be the broad theme and made out as decently as a light novel could. The truly pitiable fate of children in a divorce and in the ego and possessive obsessed parents is shown but not brought out as well as seen in reality.All in all, a pleasant read, good enough to make me interested to move to author's other novels which are rated even better than this. less

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