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Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read slowly, with love and with our inner ear cocked. By reading a written description, your mind is responsible for creating that image in your head, and the worlds described in books will help you expand your understanding, even while you travel in India.
The novels are perhaps the best way to get close to India, sometimes the best essays or travel stories while you are traveling in India, whatever your means of transport you have next to you friends. Books. Three novels, three shades of India. Here are the three novels that you’ll want to bring you closer to India, in Mumbai, Kerala and Bangalore, reading a specialbook. Many are the books about India and Indian literature also offers many Indian writers who write in English.
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS – Arundhati Roy
This is a novel recommended to those who wait the rhythms of a story told in a non-chronological, or those who want to visit Kerala. They have two children bound by a magic thread. This book speaks to you of the world as seen from the eyes of twins. Ammu, her mother, she ran away from her husband and has a romance considered prohibited, in a conservative context like that of South India in the sixties. A tragedy destroy their family and alienate them. But not forever. This is one of the most moving Indian books, showing how every aspect of India both life and death together.
SUITABLE BOY – Novel by Vikram Seth
In its 1,600 pages is all India: the relations between the different communities and the political, religious festivals, weddings and family dynamics. Beautiful book, really recommended for those who are not afraid before too long novels. Do not forget that this is a linear novel, that is easy to read, but offers a further advantage: the suoipersonaggi soon become almost real presence of your life. What’s it about? Imagine being in the fifties, imagine being in the imaginary Indian village of Brahmpur. Lata (the protagonist), will have to follow the same fate of her older sister, which is to marry the right guy. The novel, goes further, telling the life of an entire Indian family in the years following independence.
SHANTARAM – Gregory David Roberts
Why read it? The author (and his book), are special, they drive you to discover India, a mystery. In describing his personal experience (certainly much romanticized), nothing is too much for him: neither situations nor the statements of feelings. Gregory Roberts is a former heroin addict, and escapes from an Australian high-security prison. In the early eighties he arrives in a place where nothing is impossible. In Bombay, in fact, he enters the vortex of all possible experiences. He knows the slums and rural villages, not forgetting the months in prison, the hard work, the heroin relapse, the war in Afghanistan. If you love the adventures (also spiritual), and the characters really special, this book is for you.
