Are the sins of the father visited upon their children?
Read MoreThe prison sequence in the novel takes place at the infamous Arthur Road prison in Bombay (Mumbai), India. Conditions at Arthur Road are unimaginably horrific earning it the reputation as one of the ten worst prisons in the world.
Read MoreWomen are portrayed in the novel as either predatory or nurturing. One of them is an enigmatic admixture of the two.
Read MoreThe Sub-Saharan African landscape mirrors some of the central themes of the novel. Beauty and violence coexist in a place where the drama is immediate and immutable.
Read MoreThe novel explores how the impulse for romance often resurfaces in the same individual as the impulse for spirituality.
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