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Shashi Tharoor. Riot: A Love Story.-

Publication: World Literature Today
Publication Date: 22-MAR-02
Format: Online - approximately 597 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Shashi Tharoor. Riot: A Love Story.-(book review)

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New York. Arcade. 2001. 272 pages $24.95, ISBN 1-55970-605-8

SHASHI THAROOR'S third novel, Riot, confirms that he strives for novelty in his fiction. Novelty was a prominent feature of his very first novel, The Great Indian Novel, about Indira Gandhi's usurpation of civil rights during the Emergency. Tharoor perceived similarity between the situation during the Emergency and the situation in the Indian epic the Mahabharata and telescoped the two situations, turning a great epic into a novel which, according to one reviewer, was "century-striding." Tharoor's second novel, Show Business,...

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