L'alchimia del desiderio

Garbage of Higher Order! Sexual extravagance can be employed as a shocking factor, especially in transgressive fictions, case in point Charles Bukowski. Just a shocking phenomenon, you can’t expect to glue your readers only with that. There is so much wetness. You might skid on it and damage your cer Leggi tutto

Utter trash entwined with historical real or fictitious events to give the book a raison d'etre, but alas it is just bad sex all around. just don't.

Do you remember Tarun Tejpal? The Editor-in-Chief of the revolutionary newspaper Tehelka? Very recently he has published a novel. The name of the book is The Alchemy of Desire. Last week I bought it from The Starmark on Lord Sinha Road. I would not mind saying that it is a nice fiction inspite of th Leggi tutto

This is surely one of the most difficult reviews I have had to write in the recent past. I honestly did not know what to make of this book. It has been written well but I am not happy with the structure nor the size of the book. The plot does not move till you are through with 50% of the book. Till

Love is not the strongest glue between two people, Sex is... that's the hard hitting opening line of the book. This is the first book written by Tarun Tejpal,and what an amazing piece of work he has come up with. New readers might find it hard to digest but I have found it to be a truly great art of Leggi tutto

This book was all over the place, as if the author couldn't decide which story to tell so he attempted to blend all of them. The story between the narrator and his wife was the most interesting. The slow-motion breakdown of their marriage was heart wrenching. Interesting tidbits on the cultural and