Advantages: well written and interesting.. Disadvantages: lenghty passages that could have been trimmed down
Born in 1952 in Calcutta, India, VIKRAMSETH was educated at Oxford, Stanford University and Nanjing University..He has travelled widely and lived in Britain,China and the USA.He now lives in Calcutta, India
His first novel, THE GOLDEN GATE : A NOVEL IN VERSE(1986), describes the experiences of a group of friends living in California..
His second novel A SUITABLE BOY, at 1347 pages ,is one of the longest novels ever published in a single volume in the English language...It won the prestigious Booker's award for 1994...
Set in the post-indpendance India in the early 1950's, it deals with the efforts of a widowed mother looking for a SUITABLE BOY for her daughter...The novel begins with a wedding and closes with a wedding...It is a very colorful novel with accounts of festivals,the exotic food and the rich and flashy lifestyles ...
Advantages: The writing, the setting, the music Disadvantages: The characters are not sow ell defined or likable
I bought this book, An Equal Music by VikramSeth, for the grand sum of one penny on the basis of a review written by Floon. I was enchanted by his description of the storyline and the author?s writing style. I was not disappointed.
The author, VikramSeth states, in an author?s note located on the last page of the book, that, ?Music to me is dearer even than speech?. To convey this, he focuses his novel on the world of music and its performance.
The central character, Michael Holme, is the second violinist in a London-based string quartet. His life has settled somewhat into a rut. He plays his violin; teaches the violin; makes love to one of his students, Virginie; rings his father; all as a matter of routine.
His comfortable lifestyle is suddenly disturbed by a series of events each connected and occurring in parallel ...
Advantages: Totally absorbing, touches the deepest emotions Disadvantages: Uses musical jargon freely - may put off a few people
the novel works on the subconscious mind, which regards it as ?real? and synthesises the emotions by way of response. The extent to which this works is a measure of the skill of the writer. And VikramSeth is a writer of exceptional skill.
***** First Encounter *****
I first encountered An Equal Music when we visited my brother, who was treating Mrs Floon and me to a couple of concert tickets to hear the Lindsay String Quartet at Leamington Spa to celebrate my good lady?s birthday. One of the works played was the sublime String Quintet by Schubert (see my review halfway down page 2) and my brother later pulled out a copy of this book and said he thought the Quintet was mentioned in the novel. He thought I might enjoy reading it and passed it over to me. I took it home, more out of politeness if I?m honest: as a reader ...
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