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For Lovers of A Fine Balance
Apologies in advance for sort of a strange request. I'm curious as to what people who've loved A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry would recommend. I am looking for something beautiful, and can't think of any other way to say it - I thought A Fine Balance was astonishingly beautiful, and the closest such beauty I can think of is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love In The Time of Cholera (though it is completely different). So, if you've read either of those, but especially if you've read the former, please tell me what else you've read, either here or via naseebmail. I like your taste.
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ive read almost all of GG.Marquez, and he is unparalled in consitent great writing. what a man.
Yes Definately try A suitable boy. Its absolutely one of my all time favourites too. Although the writing may not be altogether the most lyrica,l it is none the less absolutelt seamless.
also The glass palace by Amitav Ghosh is an absolute must. Its really beautiful!
Can't beat Arundhati for lyricism and just beautiful language. Read it twice, once for the story, once for the language.
Amitav Ghosh's Hungry Tide was fascinating and beautiful with an excellent storyline.
An unusual book - Peter Hoeg - Smilla's Sense of Snow is an intensely riveting book with unbelievably beautiful writing. Also a thrilling plot.
For funny and touching - anything by Bapsi Sidwa (of Earth 1947 and the croweaters fame)
'A Suitable Boy' is one of my favorite books of all time - for it's completely engrossing world. It has language that almost becomes like art in miniature because it is dwarfed by the sheer size of the 'longest english novel of all time'. And yet, I am one of those people who's read it atleast 2-3 times and was sad when it ended.
Nabokov, Edwidge Danticat.
A Suitable Boy is definitely a huge time investment. And, some of the stories are more interesting than others. I was never that into the main storyline, but I really enjoyed most of the side stories. So, I would say, try again, but don't make time for it if that makes any sense....
Another less well-known book that I really liked (and asked the village about a few weeks ago) is The Solitude of Surabhi. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it if you read it....
You kinda get that with The Kite Runner, sorta, but in a more emotionally jarring way. In case you've already read it (I'm thinking you have) you MUST read Muhammad Asad's Road to Mecca-his writing is elegant bordering on poetic.