Reviews and Comments

I picked this up because I'd heard the detective story ("Kama)" was a good one. It's all right, with an ambiguous non-conclusion it certainly doesn't earn. The other stories are in other genres, and there is a portentous running background motif about communal violence and partition, but I suspect there's less here than meets the eye. There is one very funny moment in "Artha."

I liked this a lot. Imaginative-good humored, surprising, confusing in a good way. Trying to pronounce the Xhosa names was fun too.

Je l'ai lu après le prix Nobel, j'suis pas tellement branché, moi. Mais je l'ai choisi parce qu'elle a dit qu'elle a été inspirée par Bourdieu.

Amazing. Civilization as a "caging" process. The histories of some hitherto existing societies are histories of class struggle, which ones, and why. Organizational outflanking.