Sudeep Sen
Reviews
Aruna Chakravarti. The Inheritors.
Penguin. Rs 295, Pages 341, ISBN 0-14-303216.
The Inheritors is a novel of ideas and places, of the pleasures of language, music and food. It opens dramatically in media res: “Monomohini Sen stepped off the train at Koln Hauptbahnof and looked around her eagerly. The platform was deserted. She was the only passenger it seemed, who had alighted from the train from Poznan. Could Abhi Dada have missed her fax?....” The narrative moves back and forth between 1897 Bengal and contemporary Germany. The period evocations are very authentic and convincing, told in a style that is elegant, fluid and at the same time tightly-wrought and well-paced. In Aruna Chakravarti’s The Inheritors
lies a fine example of a literary novel — one that is well-researched but the author chooses to wear her scholarship with a light touch and ease.
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