An ambitious novel, no doubt.
I've read a translation, okay.
A controversial novel, yes.
Hyped, indeed.
Lajja by Taslima Nasrin has everything working for her around this book but the matter. I felt it could have been a short story rather than a whole 216 pages book.
The plot concerning a Hindu family's predicament in an Islamic state which they always believed was their country is certainly weak.
The story drags and at the end, having guessed what it would be at the very beginning, one is happy to finish the book. It is a good book to come during an election and work as a political propaganda.
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