Book- Pittho's World
Price-299
Harper collins publication
ISBN 13-978-8172239343
Author-Murtaza Razvi
Pitthos world is a collection of short stories which are interlinked to one another at one level but are as different as chalk and cheese. the writer has been one of the distinguished journalist from Pakistan and though he was born after the horrible act of partition his stories encompasses a great description of both pre and post partition Pakistan. For a moment you are living through the larger than life yet believable characters and events. As much as we nurture and fuel our hatred towards our counterpart brothers and sisters living across LOC, there is always this innate curiosity regarding them, their culture, their routine. Whether their life is interspersed with the same spices of emotion as ours, whether they shoulder the same monotonous struggle for bread , clothes and living. The stories are outrageously humorous and at the same time pushes you to empathize with them.
The stories have a wide range of elements, ranging from supernatural to basic, lovers jealousy. The stories are interlinked as far as the characters in question are concerned but each story has been spurned in such a way that even if you pick up a random story , you will not only understand the basic plot but also enjoy the variety of emotions on display. The book will prove to be a pandora's box for people who have not got any ties to the village and its tradition. They would have learnt a lot about the rural culture and traditional differences existing smoothly between a city and a village. But the story doesnt end there itself it takes us on a whirlwind tour of Karachi, Lahore and a picterusque one at that.
Apart from giving us myriads of glimpses of another country's culture which was once a proud part of India, the stories also tackle different emotions and human traits as precisely as possible. The characters, be it the abuse hurling Apa, or a fierce feminst Rani or the righteous Dada all seem to have etched from our own surroundings and we do sem to identify them, may be not always but sometimes.
The only teeny tiny drawback I found (Not that I was looking for one) was the lack of crisp vocabulary which could have escalated the status of this book from a good read to a great book.
All in all a good book to splurge.
Price-299
Harper collins publication
ISBN 13-978-8172239343
Author-Murtaza Razvi
Pitthos world is a collection of short stories which are interlinked to one another at one level but are as different as chalk and cheese. the writer has been one of the distinguished journalist from Pakistan and though he was born after the horrible act of partition his stories encompasses a great description of both pre and post partition Pakistan. For a moment you are living through the larger than life yet believable characters and events. As much as we nurture and fuel our hatred towards our counterpart brothers and sisters living across LOC, there is always this innate curiosity regarding them, their culture, their routine. Whether their life is interspersed with the same spices of emotion as ours, whether they shoulder the same monotonous struggle for bread , clothes and living. The stories are outrageously humorous and at the same time pushes you to empathize with them.
The stories have a wide range of elements, ranging from supernatural to basic, lovers jealousy. The stories are interlinked as far as the characters in question are concerned but each story has been spurned in such a way that even if you pick up a random story , you will not only understand the basic plot but also enjoy the variety of emotions on display. The book will prove to be a pandora's box for people who have not got any ties to the village and its tradition. They would have learnt a lot about the rural culture and traditional differences existing smoothly between a city and a village. But the story doesnt end there itself it takes us on a whirlwind tour of Karachi, Lahore and a picterusque one at that.
Apart from giving us myriads of glimpses of another country's culture which was once a proud part of India, the stories also tackle different emotions and human traits as precisely as possible. The characters, be it the abuse hurling Apa, or a fierce feminst Rani or the righteous Dada all seem to have etched from our own surroundings and we do sem to identify them, may be not always but sometimes.
The only teeny tiny drawback I found (Not that I was looking for one) was the lack of crisp vocabulary which could have escalated the status of this book from a good read to a great book.
All in all a good book to splurge.
Very nicely reviewed...I am yet to read my copy...it's lying there untouched :/
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