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Literary Review
First Impressions
BY SUCHITRA BEHAL
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Servant Master Mistress, Boman Desai, Indiaink, Rs. 395.
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IMAGINE bringing up a tiger cub in the place of a pup. But then, the Sanjanas are not an ordinary family. They had meant to let the kids enjoy the cub and finally send it to the zoo. That never happened and so they continued to live with the half-grown beast, too embroiled in their own conflicts to take notice of its growing-up pains. Like in his earlier novels, Boman Desai has, in this one too, chosen a wide canvas. The story begins in Navsari in India, and then moves between Navsari, London and Mumbai. Desai weaves a tale so intricate that after reading page after page of family disagreements, entanglements, love affairs and the like, I felt lost. Perhaps you could be braver and manage to find your way out of the maze.
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