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THE BLUE NOTEBOOK by James A. Levine
THE BLUE NOTEBOOK is a beautify written novel about the grimmest of subjects – child prostitution. Were it not for author James A. Levine’s exquisite prose and his remarkable protagonist, nine year-old Batuk Ramasdeen, a poem of a girl, this story might be too sad to read. However, Batuk, a precocious, ever optimistic little girl, wins the reader’s heart from page one and makes The Blue Notebook very hard to put down. At 210 pages, I read it in two sittings.
July 7, 2009
Tags: India, prostitution, Unique Narrative Posted in: Book Club Choice, Debut Novel, India, Top Pick 
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EAST OF THE SUN by Julia Gregson
Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naГЇve bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn t be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.
June 28, 2009
Tags: 1920s, British Raj, India, Time Period Posted in: 20th Century, Fiction based on Time Period, India, Women's Fiction No Comments
