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864 pages, Paperback
Published September 14, 2015
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About the author
Charu Nivedita
82 books147 followersCharu Nivedita (born 18 December 1953) is a postmodern, transgressive Tamil writer, based in Chennai, India. His novel Zero Degree was longlisted for the 2013 edition of Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. Zero Degree was inducted into the prestigious '50 Writers, 50 Books - The Best of Indian Fiction', published by HarperCollins. Vahni Capildeo places Charu Nivedita on par with Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce and Jean Genet, in her article in the Caribbean Review of Books. He was selected as one among 'Top Ten Indians of the Decade 2001 - 2010' by The Economic Times. He is inspired by Marquis de Sade and Andal. His columns appear in magazines such as Art Review Asia, The Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle.
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February 8, 2021
At 867 pages Charu amazes us with a massively engaging book...
Looking past the reliability, repetitiveness, author's personal life controversies, the strong criticism Charu's character and his works conjure up everywhere, fact from fiction debates - Exile is a 100% pure celebration. Though most readers give this credit to his other famous novel 'Raasaleela', for me Exile is far better, far fun-filled and amply entertaining..
As a book, as a work of fiction - Exile is capable of staying at the top of the chart among contemporary tamil fiction (especially the ones with contemporary setting). As with the author's other works, it doesn't follow any particular genre or theme or flow and it breaks all kinds of walls & conventions of a traditional fiction set up and flows on like a free flowing stream making its own path wherever it might lead to.
It's like note on hundred different things stringed together by Charu's bewitching writing.
From intriguingly weird sex affairs, to daily routines, to dogs, trees, people, fishes, landscapes and leaves, to communal riots, to famous literature works, cinemas, to govt & govt offices, to music, to travel, to cooking, to meditation, to tit(bits), to temples, to Mantras, to Vedas and to every odd thing you simply cannot think to interwine in a single piece of work - it has everything.
There's literally something on everything for everyone..
Go, read and join the celebration 🔥🔥
Looking past the reliability, repetitiveness, author's personal life controversies, the strong criticism Charu's character and his works conjure up everywhere, fact from fiction debates - Exile is a 100% pure celebration. Though most readers give this credit to his other famous novel 'Raasaleela', for me Exile is far better, far fun-filled and amply entertaining..
As a book, as a work of fiction - Exile is capable of staying at the top of the chart among contemporary tamil fiction (especially the ones with contemporary setting). As with the author's other works, it doesn't follow any particular genre or theme or flow and it breaks all kinds of walls & conventions of a traditional fiction set up and flows on like a free flowing stream making its own path wherever it might lead to.
It's like note on hundred different things stringed together by Charu's bewitching writing.
From intriguingly weird sex affairs, to daily routines, to dogs, trees, people, fishes, landscapes and leaves, to communal riots, to famous literature works, cinemas, to govt & govt offices, to music, to travel, to cooking, to meditation, to tit(bits), to temples, to Mantras, to Vedas and to every odd thing you simply cannot think to interwine in a single piece of work - it has everything.
There's literally something on everything for everyone..
Go, read and join the celebration 🔥🔥
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