Novel is translated in very elegant easy prose, so easy I thought will it it turn out to be one of those template novels. Thankfully it is not. Novel has certain degree of depth.
Material awareness exhibited through out the novel makes the novel trustworthy. Historical Persons and Historical events finds their place in the novel seamlessly without any desparation. Ordinary common lives intersect with historical events and Famous Persons. Ordinary common people had to bear the prison of times they had lived and we get a lively moving story happening during the early part of the sixteenth century. Many tiny details educate and surprise us throughout the course of the novel.
Though prisoners of time, Novel s Lead characters exhibit extraordinary common sense and the conversations teem with sufficient philosophical moorings on Life as a whole. Each common man has his own struggle and their view of life which gets articulated as the novel marches back and forth from portugal, From across the seas to Indian coasts and Vijayanagara Empire and beyond.
Qualms, yes, Novel lacks overarching vision or subtext. Tyranny of Business and Religion across vastly different regions gets overstated whereas the Love Story Strand meets a Meek end.
Good Read.
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