“Hariharan’s
language is poetic and teasing, but always measured,
drawing us in and never
providing answers… (an) exquisitely woven tale… an important
and truly international book…”
Mail
on Sunday, London
“(The
novel) shows, with exceptional fictional skill, the subtle and
everyday way in which women are bludgeoned to play male-scripted
subordinate roles...”
India
Today
“Githa
Hariharan displays a control of the medium, a sophistication that
would be the envy of any contemporary writer.
Her diction is pointed and the textures communicated
exquisite. In terms
of technique, her writing is masterful... she cannot write of an
experience but will animate it with sharp and vivid life.
There is not a single flat sentence in the book.”
The
Economic Times
“Hariharan
fuses raga-like storytelling and multiple perspectives deftly and
movingly…”
Canberra
Times
“This
novel explains and sings simultaneously and by the end we are
thoroughly persuaded.”
Finetime
“Githa
Hariharan revels in colour, taste and smell… a novel about the
elemental things of life: about love and death, about men and
women, story and myth…”
New
Internationalist
“Ce
roman, agreable a lire, est brillament ecrit et nous plonge avec
delicatesse dans la realite indienne.”
Choisir
“…une
fantastique porte d’entrée vers l’Inde millenaire et
contemporaine…”
Le
Nouveau Quotidien
Penguin
India, 1992; The Women’s Press; 1996; Editions Zoe (French), 1996;
Van Gennep/ Novib, (Dutch), 1996; Ediciones del Bronce, (Spanish),
2000.
www.penguinbooksindia.com
www.editionszoe.ch/
www.the-womens-press.com/
