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Hotel Calcutta reviewed by Indian Literature journal
The Indian Literature journal (Jan-Feb 2013) has published a review of Hotel Calcutta written by noted academic Anuradha Ghosh. Indian Literature journal is published by Sahitya Akademi -- National Academy of Letters.
An excerpt: `An astounding work that interrogates the myriad surfaces of reality ... Absurdity becomes, in his hands, a pleasant tool, one that helps to displace and repattern the elements that make up our systems of thought and emotion. Roger Mortimer, the white tomcat that apparently steps out of a painted canvas into a different life, a different system of love and aging, would dominate the imagination of the reader for a very long time, invoking issues of love and mutability that are as old as literature itself.'
Read the full review here at the author's website: http://bit.ly/18DeozO (Scanned pages)
An excerpt: `An astounding work that interrogates the myriad surfaces of reality ... Absurdity becomes, in his hands, a pleasant tool, one that helps to displace and repattern the elements that make up our systems of thought and emotion. Roger Mortimer, the white tomcat that apparently steps out of a painted canvas into a different life, a different system of love and aging, would dominate the imagination of the reader for a very long time, invoking issues of love and mutability that are as old as literature itself.'
Read the full review here at the author's website: http://bit.ly/18DeozO (Scanned pages)
