kracekumar reviewed Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy
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5 stars
Exquisite Cadavers, an excellent work of fiction set in the time of political divide and rise of the extreme political right in Britain and India. Meena Kandasamy's two columnar storytelling hooked me to read it in two sittings. The style, voice, and format are new to me and addictive. I completed one column for ten pages and forget there is another column to read, went back and reread. While I was reading, I was contemplating, how could be the experience of reading Kafka on Shore in a similar format.
What astonishes me is the experimentation in the last novel - When I hit you and in the current book — shattering the convention of the fixed fiction format and voice and expectation for the readers.
The writing brilliance excels where the Tamil poems, landscapes, philosophy gels well in the English language and London for every immigrant.
The novel is an …
Exquisite Cadavers, an excellent work of fiction set in the time of political divide and rise of the extreme political right in Britain and India. Meena Kandasamy's two columnar storytelling hooked me to read it in two sittings. The style, voice, and format are new to me and addictive. I completed one column for ten pages and forget there is another column to read, went back and reread. While I was reading, I was contemplating, how could be the experience of reading Kafka on Shore in a similar format.
What astonishes me is the experimentation in the last novel - When I hit you and in the current book — shattering the convention of the fixed fiction format and voice and expectation for the readers.
The writing brilliance excels where the Tamil poems, landscapes, philosophy gels well in the English language and London for every immigrant.
The novel is an absolute reading in the time of human madness destroying humans. Pick up this book!