Brahma's Dream

By Shree Ghatage

Book Overview

Written with exceptional grace and empathy, Brahma's Dream explores the richness of relationships and the mystery of how one life is defined through its connection to others. Set in Bombay amid the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385660162
• ISBN13: 9780385660167
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Anchor Canada
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.2" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Quietly unassuming, deeply powerful.

Shree Ghatage traces the lives of the members of the Oek family in the waning years of the British Raj through the eyes of Mohini, a child whose body is assaulted by disease, leaving her mind clear and lucid. The writing in this book has a slow, measured pace enabling the reader to slip back in time to when life was not lived at breakneck pace and to savour a story that is told with a master's light touch. There is politics, love, tensions among family in this novel; rituals and the smells and sights of India that are viewed from a young girl's eyes as she lives much longer than the doctor's prognoses. But never do the images, the smells, the sounds appear atmospheric, or gratuitous in this narrative. Ghatage brings a richly warm and compassionate view of a mother's love, a father's suffering and a family's trials as they try to endure in a changing world that is marked by factors beyond their control. Brahma's Dream is an extremely satisfying read.