Silent Raga | Ameen Merchant

Sensual and Intelligent

Two great qualities of this novel: one, the vitality of the characters, smart and passionate, and ensnared in a plot that is full of the play of fate and reality, feeling as familiar as one’s own life, however removed that life may be from theirs. Two, the sheer physical allure of the places and scenes. The description is never overdone, but this seems to be a book which can’t resist the sensuality of India itself. There is something about books about India…. It is as if images and descript… read review