Inheritance (Bluestreak)

By Indira Ganesan

Book Overview

In her first novel since her debut with The Journey, Indira Ganesan gives us the story of Sonil, who at fifteen has come to her adored grandmother's house on a paradisiacal island off the coast of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807062278
• ISBN13: 9780807062272
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

beautiful though not perfect

While the book maybe slightly simplistic, it still had some wonderful moments that make it worthwhile. The main character, or at least some of her concerns and ideas, are well-developed and much of the text is beautiful. Other characters, mostly Jani and the mother, are presented as interesting frameworks but need to be expounded upon more. Overall its quite worth the read.

Best Thing Since Vikram Chandra

This book quite simply blew me away. Not only does it attest to the loss of a girl's innocence (only to be redeemed by worldly experience) but it opens the imagination to new zones untrammeled by post-colonial melancholia. What we get instead is a tour de force rite du passage that should be part of every bookshelf or classroom serious about taking Said's Orientalism to comic task.

Overall, I praise her efforts. . .

Inheritence Indira Ganesan Indira's narrative has noticeable similarities with Arundhati Roy, Ghita Mehta, etc., namely, the smells of the country which she evokes, the magical way she portrays Sonil's mother and great-uncle (it reminded me of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and 100 Years of Solitude). Her frankness and accessibility to this whirlwind of an island called Pi is exceptional. "Things should be made simple, but not simpler." or so says Einstein. Ganesan employs this tactic with her alluring and inquisitive narrative voice. Her freedom of movement within the text is very pleasing as well. The events seem to take a very natural course in the story without being too predictable. The one thing that really bothered me was when Jani ended up marrying the weirdo religious guy who smokes weed and never bathes. He seemed too kooky to ever shack up with Jani, who seemed to me a very intelligent and spiritual young woman. Overall, I praise her efforts and long to smell the sweetness of jasmine, the mangoes ripe on the trees, and the aroma of spices flooding out of the kitchen. -brian morris