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Summary: Hero's Walk
Review: An absolutely wonderful book. I could see parts of my life in it, in little things like the lending library etc.
A must read.
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Summary: Amazing read!
Review: As a native of South Asia, the things referenced in the book rang true with me...the characters' voices, their actions, their reactions...it was all so familiar. Badami obviously knows what she's talking about! In particular, you had to love Sripathi...what a character. I'd be curious to know if the author actually knows people like the ones she has written about. At any rate, she's written a book that deserves praise and plenty of attention.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: delightful and fascinating story. Ms. Badami (like many of her countrymen and women) have that ability to present a wonderful and engrossing story of a family dealing with the vagaries of maintaining dignity and a semblance of pride in the highly corrupt culture and society that is Modern India. Well paced and reminds me of many of Rohinton Mistry's books.
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Summary: another fine Indian novel involving a family
Review: delightful and fascinating story. Ms. Badami (like many of her countrymen and women) have that ability to present a wonderful and engrossing story of a family dealing with the vagaries of maintaining dignity and a semblance of pride in the highly corrupt culture and society that is Modern India. Well paced and reminds me of many of Rohinton Mistry's books.
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Summary: A Thorough, Realistic and Heart-aching story
Review: I absolutely adore this book! Anita Rau Badami has managed to beautifully incorporate the mind-set of both middle-aged, traditional Indian parents, with that of a child being brought up by mixed parents, in Canada.
The characters come to life and their emotions pull the reader into the pages and the plot.
It is beautifully written, and the story itself is very realistic. The characters are each victims in their own ways and Badami has been able to portray them, not as characters in a story, but as people living in our world, surviving the laughter and tears of everyday life.
Read this book, it might really help to change your life...or simply to make you think.
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Summary: The first time I read Badami and she is Excellent!!
Review: I just finished one of the most amazing books I've
read this year. The Hero's Walk is undoubtedly one of
the finest books ever written in English by an Indian.What makes this book so different and refreshing apart
from the plot is the treatment of the books and its
characters. The plot revolves around Sripathi Rao - a
simple man with simple needs in the town of Totapuram
nestled in the South of India - and in the Big House
we meet his wife Nirmala - the ever docile Indian Wife
- his horrendous mother Ammaya who in most respects
can be labelled a witch - his unmarried sister Putti -
who longs for the boy next door, and his son Arun - a
rebellion in the true sense of the word. Amidst all this lies the past - of his daughter Maya
getting married to a foreigner and residing in
Vancouver - who has never seen her family for seven
years now. Her father has abolished her very name
being taken in the house - till she and her husband
Alan meet with an accident and Sripathi has to go to
Canada to claim his granddaughter Nandana. With her parents no more, Nandana is lost and confused
in India and is trying to connect stuff to her past -
which is quite a task for a seven-year old. The story revolves around the fact that simplicity is
the biggest act of heroism. Badami's style of writing
is dry, subtle and so so heartbreaking that it almost
had me on the verge of tears. Though the authhor does remind you of R.K. Narayan at
various points in the book, she does have the finesse
to take you by surprise. A great read!
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Summary: A Must Read!
Review: I just finished reading this book and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed reading.. it's one of those books which you cannot put down. The build up of characters, (particularly Sripathi Rao) is amazing, and so is the story development.. very touching and emotional at times. If there were a moral to the story, it would definitely be: Live In the Moment.
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Summary: Liked this as much as "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Review: I liked this as much as "To Kill a Mockingbird" (the baseline of "books anyone would like"). WHY? Though EXTREMELY different in EVERY aspect, it has the same *plain* intrinsic honesty.
Reads well too. Sent a copy to my Mom & she stayed up all night reading it.
Normally, I'm a Jane-ite and fond of other 19th century English writers as well as a fan of "good" mysteries (latter being very enjoyable mental gum chewing) but this book - on its lonesome - got me VERY enthused about Indian literature.
Extremely well written. And I've read a bunch o' other Indian novels since & I'm wondering why Indian authors are sooo much better than current US writers.
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Summary: Great story!
Review: I LOVED this book. While I know very little about India this book brought the country alive for me. I was struck that this story could take place in any country, not just India. A very enchanting and insightful story of what people/families can do to eachother--both good and bad.
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Summary: A sheer delight !
Review: I thorougly enjoyed this book! Infact, once I started reading it, I was instantly captured, and could not put it down. The book has 400 pages, and I read it in two days!! I enjoyed Anita Rao Badami's first book, Tamarind Mem.... and was ecstatic to discover The Hero's Walk. Coming of age occurs at any given age, and this book clearly proves it! I can't wait for Anita to publish a third novel. Read it, you won't be dissapointed!
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