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Atlas Of Unknowns (2009)

by Tania James(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

030726890X (ISBN13: 9780307268907)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Knopf

review 1: What I apparently have to accept is that I rarely like female authors and I even more rarely like Asian (east, south, whatever, the important part is vastly different culture and way of thinking) authors, so this book had very little chance with me. The story is strong, the storytelling is just gnawing at my nerves. If I need to sum it up in one word, it's tawdry. Too many adjectives, too 'delicate' description, too much talking, too much whatever. Unrealistic, irritating. I prefer simpler things. I'm sorry.
review 2: I loved this- Tania James is a great cross-cultural storyteller. The verisimilitude in scenes of both India and the United States was remarkable. When faced with "realism" in contemporary fiction, I often find myself unable to fully relate, in spi... morete of enjoying it. In the past, this difficulty with "realism" has included pretty much all Indian fiction writers, in spite of a shared cultural background. I was entirely engrossed in this novel for a little over a day and part of that, I think, was the ability to relate or see the truth in every character. less

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