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El Amante Japones (2011)

by Rani Manicka(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8425345707 (ISBN13: 9788425345708)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Random House Mondadori

review 1: Parvathi, a young girl in Ceylon is married off to a rich landlord in Malaya, by her unscrupulous father, by showing the marriage broker some other girl’s picture. This also fulfilled the prophesy when she was born. Parvathi’s husband is annoyed at the cheating, and asks her to get ready to go back to her village. For some reasons, her husband(Marimuthu) lets her stay on with him. She stays there, but not as a much loved wife, but more as a person who is just about tolerated to be allowed to stay on.Some years later, her husband brings home his love-child with a dancer. When she (the dancer) dies, Marimuthu brings their daughter(Rubini) home to his wife. Later Parvathi gives birth to a son, who ends up being extremely pampered and spoiled. Both these children test Parv... moreathi a lot, in different ways. Marimuthu passes away just before the Japanese invasion of Malaysia.After the Japanese invasion, it so happens that Parvathi becomes the lover of a Japanese General, and for the first time in her life, is happy and cherished as a woman.While the story was interesting, there was still something missing. I haven’t been able to pin point it. There was a lot of prophesies, and portents happening, but the story could not really hold it together to explain everything that was brought up in the narration.. It almost feels like a lot of ingredients were added, but somewhere along the line, the purpose of the recipe was lost?I would rate it 2/5, mainly because it started off well, and the way it ended was a little disappointing. Not a book that I would particularly recommend.
review 2: This is an easy read and a promising storyline in the beginning. The characters of Parvathi's husband, Kasu Marimuthu, her friend Maya and Kupu were well thought out and held attention. However, in the last few chapters of the book, after the death of Kasu, the original plot and storyline is lost. It seems like the author tries to bundle everything in the last pages or, this could be a start of another book, as soon as the focus turned to the grown up adopted daughter and evil son. less

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