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'Enthralling.' --Julie Myerson, Guardian
'Delicious, enjoyable ... Kapur brings an intimacy to the subject with her fabulous eye for the minutiae of daily life ... Immensely readable.' --Scotland on Sunday
'This fluent and witty novel gets under the skin of a marooned woman giddily and triumphantly set adrift by the promise of love.' --Independent
'Delicious, enjoyable ... Kapur brings an intimacy to the subject with her fabulous eye for the minutiae of daily life ... Immensely readable.' --Scotland on Sunday
'This fluent and witty novel gets under the skin of a marooned woman giddily and triumphantly set adrift by the promise of love.' --Independent
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A stunning repackage of Manju Kapur's classic novel - the tender and funny story of family life across three generations of Delhi shopkeepers.
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is enjoyable on all sorts of levels and deals with many issues facing India today.
It has as its central theme women. Women and marriage and love and politics and sexuallity and religion. A heady brew which could very easily boil over into a messy novel. The fact that Kapur manages to control her plot is a tribute to the skill of an emerging talent.
I also learnt a lolt from the book. On the factual side I gained a deeper understanding of what was going on in the 1980's and 1990's when the Hindu fundamentalist BJP were the main challenge to the corrupt Congress I party.
But this book is more than facts, it is about emotions and sexuality. About how much a woman has the right to expect and about how women are controlled and manipulated. Most of all it is about fear. Fear of going against social convention by marrying for love. Fear about breaking social convention by leaving your husband and his family for the love of another woman. And the fear of the society which imposes those social conventions. Yes society is very affraid.
This book has all of that and more. And it's thoroughly enjoyable as well
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have just finished reading "A Married Women" and are very sorry that there are no more. Every page was a pleasure - very straight-forward language, always right to the point. No unnecessary explanations or words. Just pure action. The novel is about the loves and life of a contemporary Indian women. A women that asks a bit more of life, than tradition will automatically give her. It also gives a very interesting and profound describtion of India today, and the everyday life of Indian women. The special touch of female love gives the novel even more value and describes feelings and senses that can be transfered to any society of the world. A very relevant book, indeed!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Sheer brilliance!
23 Feb 2005
Format:Paperback
Manju Kapur weaves an extraordinarily vivid tale of love, lust, longing, gender roles and family structures, set against the backdrop of communal violence and the South Asian family. A reader can instantly connect with the lead character of Astha, as she experiences the trials and tribulations of being a teenager, puberty, losing a parent, entering an arranged marriage, economic dependence, raising a family and finding her true passion through art, activism and love. Kapur's realistic style and emphasis on painting a detailed picture of a character's environment only make this novel all the more readable, and one of the most interesting fiction pieces I have read in a while.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Enjoyable...
27 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
The story is much more than Asta's relationship with another woman, that only comes along near the end of the book. Kapur does a wonderful job dissecting the the everyday of an ordinary life, showing how even the ordinary in this generation can be claustrophobic. Kapur highlights how women were taught that caring for anything outside the small world created for you (whether it is in an ashram, your parent's house, or your husband's house) was not normal. The character of Asta struggles with this throughout the book, using her art and then eventual political activism to be a part of the world. Her affair is another outlet for this connection. I found the history fascinating and the story well written. This book does not have a packaged ending and offers no excuses for its story, so is refreshing and a fast read.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
a nice combo
30 July 2006
Format:Paperback
It is a nicely written book. Manju Kapur has beautifully combined several topics such as communal riots, a married woman's life and how she finds love in a person of same sex as of hers. It is well explained that how if a person wants love it is not necessary that the partner should be of opposite sex. Thus this book is worth reading once by all. This book can also be counted as a support to the homosexuals as it has been mentioned in the book. The author has mentioned the positive and not the negative side of homosexuality.
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