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5.0 out of 5 stars
terrific Bengali character study,
This review is from: Half Life (Paperback)
In London, Bengali expatriate Dr. Aruna Ahmed Jones married British Dr. Patrick Jones on the rebound from her failed romance with long time friend Ejaz "Jazz" Ahsan. In fact she fled Singapore's Little India to escape her past that included her father's death, drug addiction, miscarriages and a psychological determination that she is bi-polar. Now less than a year with kind handsome Patrick, she reads Jazz's father Bengali writer Hari Hassam's note to a friend during the 1971 East and West Pakistan war: "It's time to stop fighting, and go home." Aruna agrees that it is time for her to stop fighting her ghosts and go home to confront them.
While she returns to Singapore, her inspiration lies dying in Kuala Lumpur General Hospital in Malaysia. Aruna knows she must confront Jazz and their past if she is to move forward with him or with Patrick who she expects will not welcome her back. This terrific character study contains two discerning subplots as readers follow Aruna's efforts to cleanse her mind from her self-imposed demons that force her into a Half Life and Haris' death count vigil. Both are well written and nicely converge as the audience obtains insight into the Bengali culture living in Southeast Asia and London through this pair and others. Roopa Farooki provides a strong drama as Aruna learns that though Thomas Wolff is right that "you can't go home", Hari is also correct as sometimes you have no choice but to go home. Harriet Klausner
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Half Life (Hardcover)
this was a gift for my Daughter but she loved it and is reading all the books this author has written...
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
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This review is from: Half Life (Hardcover)
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I got this book since I enjoyed the author's previous novel. This one was very disappointing. The story jumps all over the place and never develops any meaningful depth. With the plot being so superficial, it makes it very difficult for the reader to connect with the story. The characters were not believeable. Rooney is a very troubled person and makes some bizarre choices. She doesn't have enough gumption to decline a cup of coffee in a neighborhood shop but she is able to simple drop everything and run off to another country at the spur of the moment and cut off all communication with the people she is close to--she does this twice actually. She runs from Jazz in one country, meets and quickly marries Patrick in another country, and promptly runs from Patrick--and both men simply accept this. I recommend passing on this one! Half Life is half-baked.
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