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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A ride of unaparralled intelligence and sensuality,
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This review is from: That Summer in Paris: A Novel (Hardcover)
THAT SUMMER IN PARIS is a literary gift on so many levels I barely know where to begin. It treats the nature of art, the soul of the writer, the joys of platonic sex and sexual sense, the eroticism of food, the despair and the ecstacy of old age, the confusions of youth--in short, life itself--in such intimate and touching ways this reader felt changed in a way he's rarely felt from a novel. The miracle is that a young woman is the author of a book that should rightly have been written by someone twice her age at the least. It is a book of wisdom, sensitivity, and good old-fashioned fun. The theme of the book is a mighty one--the meaning of what it is to be alive in a world of infinite possibility. In the eyes and soul of a 75-year-old writer of great success looking for one last chance at feeling alive we see and deeply feel a methaphor for all our lives. Yet it is such a readable book with such a compelling plot the depth of what it explores hits us unawares. When I finished reading it, I just sat there stunned. I can't imagine a better summer read--and fall and winter and spring-- that both challenges our views of what it is to be human and gives us a renewed sense of life's grandest emotions. It is frightening to consider where Abha Dawesar has yet to go as a writer when she's already created such a masterpiece of prose as this. I LOVED THIS BOOK. God, what a read! Incredible doesn't even come close....
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Yaaawwwwwwwnn, 2.5 Stars,
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This review is from: That Summer in Paris (Paperback)
"That Summer in Paris" turned out to be not as hot as I remember; but then again that was my summer in Paris. The novel's premise, coupled with my passion for reading and writing, interested me enough to start the book. The story is about an aging writer and his quest for everlasting love. From New York where he sought the adoration, via the internet, of a young writer enthralled by his talents to Paris where he is the object of the adolescent adulation of girlhood friends, the author explores the intricacies of love and its influence on art and the artist. I made it halfway through the novel but ultimately the story couldn't maintain my interest. Although I enjoyed the aspects of the novel dealing with writerly matters, I found the parts of the story set in Paris and focusing on museum paintings and sculptures quite boring. I labored through half of the novel enjoying spurts of wonderfully erotic writing but ultimately the story moved too slowly for me and the eroticism bordered on perversity in some instances. I mean, Dawesar would have to have made an incredibly creative and powerfully visceral connection with this reader to justify Prem's physical intimacy with Meher. The absence of this connection and the languid pace of the story caused me to give up on "That Summer in Paris".
While I can't recommend this one based on my encounter with the story it appears to have struck a cord with other art and literature enthusiast. Take your chances, you might get as lucky as Prem did in Paris.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enthralling and Intelligent,
By BookFinds (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: That Summer in Paris: A Novel (Hardcover)
Dawesar's meditation on aging, creativity and passion is a great summer read for anyone interested in the love lives of writers. American writer Maya is an admirer of Prem Rustem, see: Salman Rushdie, and worships the ground he walks on. Rustem is an aging Indian Nobel prize winning novelist, who feels he needs to live life, and not chronicle it. As soon as he makes this decision, he comes across Maya's personal ad on a online dating website and wants to have a meaningful relationship with her. In the past, Prem has only been involved in unhealthy affairs- one of them with his sister, Meher. Soon after they meet, Maya leaves New York and is off to Paris for a writing fellowship and Rustem follows after her. Their May-December relationship is touching and erotic. It's a fine beach read for people who don't want the books to lose their intelligence.
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