- Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (24 Nov 1983)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140063307
- ISBN-13: 978-0140063301
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,722,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the author of CLOSE RELATIONS, SEESAW and THE STAND-IN, a title which tells of a couple who journey to Karachi for differing reasons.
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'Original, perceptive and very entertaining' Alison Lurie, Spectator
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not her finest creation,
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This review is from: Hot Water Man (Paperback)
Deborah Moggach has written some cracking books, most notably Tulip Fever. Hot Water man is a curiosity, which never quite works. The title refers to a possible holy man, helpful to women with fertility problems.
I surmise that with this book Moggach is trying to cover some similar territory to books like 'A Passage to India', though for Pakistan. It is set shortly post 70's feminism and consciousness raising, and examines an English couple who come to Karachi, and various encounters.Donald has a history with Pakistan via a grandfather who was part of that British Empire time, before Partition. Christine has been influenced by 70's feminism - enough to feel discontented, but not enough to find her own identity. She wants to capture an experience of 'real Pakistan' but in fact assimilates less than the more conventional, colonial, Donald. Duke is an American Man seeking to bring a tourist industry to Pakistan, who embarks on a rather improbable relationship with a sophisticated, Westernised Pakistani woman. Donald discovers shocking things about his grandfather, and is disabused of hero-worship. Christine fails to understand or be accepted by 'ordinary Pakistanis' and struggles in her marriage. All three central characters have dramatic, cataclysmic experiences which challenge and change them. However, the experiences are somehow not quite believable. The book feels rather like 'an idea' which doesn't quite get off the ground because the characters are not believable enough for the 'events' to ring true - the events might happen but not understandably to these particular characters - or the coincidences (such as Donald's possible discovery of his grandfather's past) enabling the events to happen, seem contrived
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mysterious Pakistan,
By Jane "wilson-howarth.com" (East Anglia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hot Water Man (Paperback)
Having had a couple of stints of living as an expatriate in southern Pakistan I was impressed that Moggoch could capture some of the subcontinent's mysteriousness. Karachi is a part of the world where materialism and concrete can feel overwhelming. This novel, though, finds some of the old traditions to balance the ugly modernity and the narrative swept me along enjoyably. This book is nowhere near as funny as some of her other work though and I wonder whether some of the characters could have been fleshed out a bit more.
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