Roy se styl is poëties; met meesleurende metafore, kragtige herhalings van woorde en konsepte, en 'n ritme wat die storie van 'n Indiese two-egg tweeling, Estha en Rahel, naboots.
Die roman boei die leser met temas van armoede, rasisme, die besondere band tussen 'n tweeling en die krag van die natuur.
Definitief aan te beveel.
“Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house - the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture - must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.”
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