Bhavani Krishnamurthy
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Latest posts by Bhavani KrishnamurthyWhen we were Orphans What a strange book. Starts out comfortably like a 20th century British novel, a mundane one at that, and then how it turns and twists and swallows itself whole! The story of a (British) man, comfortable in his moral tower of ivory - and how he is dragged through the mud! John O...
Posted on 11 June 2020 | 9:22 pm
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Growing up I binged on Harold Robbins like I fall down Netflix rabbit holes today; for more serious fare one went to the old masters - Austen and Dickens, Edith Wharton and James Joyce. The Nobel was an announcement that kept things contemporary with a phase lag - you read Naipaul and Gordimer and A...
Posted on 30 January 2020 | 7:11 pm
Read postEverything Under Daisy Johnson's book is about the dank underside of England, of people who drift and understand predestination quite differently from their imperial forefathers. 'Everything Under' is the story of Gretel, struggling to care for Sarah, the mother who abandoned her, while trying to un...
Posted on 4 January 2019 | 3:49 am
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