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| Original Title: | Mistress |
| ISBN: | 0312349475 (ISBN13: 9780312349479) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | India |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2008) |
Anita Nair
Paperback | Pages: 428 pages Rating: 3.62 | 1408 Users | 115 Reviews
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| Title | : | Mistress |
| Author | : | Anita Nair |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 428 pages |
| Published | : | August 8th 2006 by St. Martins Press-3PL (first published January 2005) |
| Categories | : | Cultural. India. Fiction. Asian Literature. Indian Literature. Romance. Literary Fiction. Womens |
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When travel writer Christopher Stewart arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala, India to meet Koman, Radha's uncle and a famous dancer, he enters a world of masks and repressed emotions. From their first meeting, both Radha and her uncle are drawn to the enigmatic young man with his cello and his incessant questions about the past. The triangle quickly excludes Shyam, Radha's husband, who can only watch helplessly as she embraces Chris with a passion that he has never been able to draw from her. Also playing the role of observer-participant is Koman; his life story, as it unfolds, captures all the nuances and contradictions of the relationships being made—and unmade—in front of his eyes.Rating Out Of Books Mistress
Ratings: 3.62 From 1408 Users | 115 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books Mistress
I said I wasn't going to read anymore of this author's books, but this one is her absolute best. Focusing on a woman dissastified in her marriage and her husband who jumps through hoops to earn her love...enter a westerner who's trying to learn if the woman's uncle is his biological father. Several beats later, they have an affair. The story also intersperses the uncle's sad, complicated story. Beautifully written, poignant and tragic with no winners in the end. I strongly recommend this one.I really liked how this book brought to life the ancient art of Kathakali around the lives of well drawn characters whose struggles resonate. Never before did I hear about this ancient Indian art and so this was a pleasant surprise for me. There were too many plots in this novel which was at times confusing and annoying. But even though, I enjoyed how it was written in different voices so that there is a connection with each one of the characters rather just with a single narrator.
Does deception begin with a single lie or it begins much before, when you feign an almost non existential bond with the person you are living? How much of deception is about lies and how much of deception is about truths you are afraid of facing on a daily basis, when you eat, sleep and breathe? And what happens once the mechanics of deception sets in? What happens when, once the feeling of euphoria caves and the guilt sets in? What happens when suddenly you discover that the person for whom you
Adultery! Now that I have your attention let me tell you that Anita Nair might very well be my favourite Indian writer and Im quite shocked this book didnt do better because its very hard to find any serious flaw in it. Here is a story of Radha, Shyam and Chris, a love triangle that feels refreshingly real and authentic. You cant help but notice a certain cynicism with which Nair presents the romantic affairs of mortals, born out of hormones and boredom. This cynicism is absent in the narrative
The author has used some clever story-telling tricks here. Although, the story is quite simple and portrays emotions that ain't too hard to describe/fathom, yet the addition of the elements of kathakalli to the story have taken the book a notch up and separated it from the pool of typical off-beat authors. However, if the reader isn't smart enough to assess the story in isolation, then he/she are likely to be deceived into considering the book mystical/unique. I loved the book when the whole
Adultery is one topic which I despise the most. "Adultery, I assumed, dragged itself into murky places. Hotel rooms and box beds, bathrooms with dripping faucets and bed linens that wore bleached spots of previous assignations. Stolen kisses and clandestine couplings. Cars with tinted, rolled-up windows and dingy movie theatres." Instead, what this novel portrays is love. Love which cannot be "dismissed as squalid or vile".This is the second novel by Anita Nair which I read, after 'Ladies
Don't why it took me so long to 'discover' Anita Nair. Thanks to The Hindu 'Lit for Life', that I picked up 'Mistress' and finished it within a week with some speed reading thrown in(an extremely brazen way to read this book, but I was wanted to know the progress in each of these character's lives)! Beautiful, eloquent and muscular writing. I wonder why it is called 'Mistress' though since the author accords almost equal space for all the major characters in their individual narratives. To do
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