Posted by Guillermo Maynez
on 22/4/2009, 15:06:48, in reply to "A Suitable Boy"
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I have read a third or so of the huge book, and it got me trapped. I'm enjoying it so much, it's like my favorite novels of the XIX Century, with epic proportions, lots and lots of characters well created, tons of subplots and intertwining of them. I finished our April book, "The Black Tulip", early son that I could read as much as I could of Suitable Boy. I will go on until it's time to read our May book.
So far: Kabir OK, Haresh OK, Amit is a lazy guy and Lata's family is not wealthy, Maan I don't like.
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: Here is an unexpected link between one of our novels and
: today's news: A Suitable Boy is set in India shortly
: after its independence from Britain and the
: partitioning off of Pakistan. One of the themes
: running through the book is the passage of the
: Zamindari Act which confiscates the estates of wealthy
: landowners and gives peasants title to the land they
: have been working. Recently there was this news item
: concerning Pakistan which indirectly referenced the
: Zamindari Act:
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: "The Taliban’s ability to exploit class divisions
: adds a new dimension to the insurgency and is raising
: alarm about the risks to Pakistan, which remains
: largely feudal.
:
: "Unlike India after independence in 1947,
: Pakistan maintained a narrow landed upper class that
: kept its vast holdings while its workers remained
: subservient..."
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: Lale, you said you are halfway through the book. Who,
: at this point, do you think is most
: "suitable" for Lata? Kabir? Amit? Haresh?
: Maan?
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: If she were my sister, I would encourage her feelings
: for Amit, but I may be biased because I like his
: sister Meenakshi. I always (in books and movies, at
: least) go for the haughty glamorous types.
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