MouthShut.com Would Like to Send You Push Notifications. Notification may includes alerts, activities & updates.

OTP Verification

Enter 4-digit code
For Business
MouthShut Logo
Upload Photo

MouthShut Score

100%
4.08 

Readability:

Story:

×

Upload your product photo

Supported file formats : jpg, png, and jpeg

Address



Contact Number

Cancel

I feel this review is:

Fake
Genuine

To justify genuineness of your review kindly attach purchase proof
No File Selected

Shadow line as an educational book
Apr 17, 2017 12:23 PM 1623 Views (via Mobile)

Readability:

Story:

A novel is any relatively long piece of written narrative fiction, normally in prose, and typically published as a book.


This was an amazing book that left me blown away by the beautiful vivid storytelling, the insightful analytical commentary and the thought provoking message of the book.


The book collapses time and space, placing events from different times and places next to each other. The narrator goes from his experience as a little boy in India to London both through the stories of his uncle and his own experience there as a student. From this narrative structure emerges a powerful message.


For Ghosh, the world is intimately connected and our memories both shape and are shaped by the interactions with that world. Identities are constructed by complex overlapping memories and stories. Cultures, nations and identities are not bounded entities but are formed through global processes of interaction between differently situated individuals. Traditions, memories and history are in a dynamic interplay with each other and by exploring the way in which this happens for one individual, Ghosh eloquently paints a picture of heterogenous global world.


This message is strongly political, smashing reified notions of culture or nations that inform nationalisms. Events do not fit neatly within borders and the global web of history and events that inform the narrators view of the world make any such claims impossible.


This book could be seen as a fictive ethnography of a global world, exploring how the narrator constructs meaning and understands his place in a global field of conflicting narratives. The stories and events described are deeply human: the innocence of childhood, the process of growing up, unrequited love, youthful idealism, painful violence, internal struggles over identity, the voyeurism of everyday life and forgiveness. I highly recommend this book.


Upload Photo

Upload Photos


Upload photo files with .jpg, .png and .gif extensions. Image size per photo cannot exceed 10 MB


Comment on this review

Read All Reviews

YOUR RATING ON

Shadow Lines - Amitav Ghosh
1
2
3
4
5
X