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FREE DOWNLOAD Ï A Girl and a River It is the 1930s and the fire of the freedom movement from distant Bengal and Delhi is warming t Confession I had no idea who Usha KR was when I picked this book up at my favorite bookshop I was drawn to the idea of something set in Karnataka What I got instead was a brilliant aching and beautifully written portrait of familial tensions set amidst the backdrop of the Indian fight for independence Sometimes beautiful things happen when you least expect it And this book was one of those uiet and understated Usha KR draws the book with such magic that I left with a feeling of disuiet Why the disuiet Because we just destroy each other in our relationships don t we The said and unsaid The tug and pull The ricochets and echoes The ebb and flow The mess and chaos All we are left with in the end Broken shards A river that flows And you flow away with it Ok Morose But I love this book And now I need someone to explain the ending because I am confused

FREE DOWNLOAD Ï A Girl and a River He languid bones of the small town of Mysore where Kaveri and Setu grow up Theirs is a liberal A Girl And A River took me into a reverie of sorts the writing for me was strangely poignant and intense Characters like Kaveri and Setu seemed to be people with whom I can identify with the similarity with a Kannada household to which I belong as well has something to do with it I suppose It was therefore easy to get into the narrator s shoe The story is a decent read if you are looking for something about people of Mysore pre and post Indian Independence

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FREE DOWNLOAD Ï A Girl and a River Prosperous household and the family takes its privileges for granted But not everyone is as luc The good read The book is about an estranged girl trying to find her roots Her parents have been almost silent through out her childhood She had spent most of her time in a boarding school She has seen incidents which aroused her curiosity The parents trying to hide things from her further increased her curiosityThrough some of her distant relatives and through a couple of visits to her mother s place she pieces together her storyThe book swings between pre independence era where a girl called Kaveri and her brother Setu are living an idyllic life with their father and their mother The initial section of the book is a description of this life of theirs and their relativesThe girl is married off to an important judge in the city This proves to be a turning point in her life She finds that the judge is already married to a Japanese lady and he has married him out of family pressure Just before her marriage she also sees the only person whom she seems to be in awe ofin love with being shot during a patriotic meeting Later she comes to know of the conspiracy behind his death All this devastates herThe girl in the post independence era trying to find her roots is her grand daughter The book has a certain mystery to it which opens up in the last few pages Read the book to unlock the mystery of her roots The Diamond Stud know of the conspiracy behind his death All this devastates herThe girl in the post independence era trying to find her roots is her grand daughter The book has a certain mystery to it which opens up in the last few pages Read the book to unlock the mystery of her roots

• Paperback
• 336
• A Girl and a River
• Usha K.R.
• English
• 13 January 2019
• 9780143101239