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Pilgrim's Paradox |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Bruce Allen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,061 Words, 13,387 Characters |
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JOURNEY TO ITHACA
Anita Desai
New York: Knopf, 1995
309 pp., $23.00
A recent profusion of novels by Indian and Indian-born authors has climaxed with Salman Rushdie's long-awaited and highly praised return performance, The Moor's Last Sigh, and also includes two dauntingly impressive debut performances. Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain blends traditional storytelling and magical-realist bizarrerie in a complex and highly amusing picture of the dangers of cultural dislocation and the pleasures of living in as many worlds as possible. Mukul Kesavan's Looking through Glass wanders imperturbably between present and past to show an India everywhere divided: by its partition from Pakistan in 1947, between Muslim and Hindu, colonialism and independence, traditio...
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...d what it is?" It's the unanswered, perhaps unanswerable, question that animates this deeply intriguing novel even as it expresses the book's perhaps inevitable limitations.
Desai may not have solved what Matteo, in one of his more portentous moments, calls "the mystery that is at the heart of India." But, for this reader at least, she has dramatized it with masterly immediacy and power. vbcrlf
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