Cholera in the time of Love..Marquez

Love in the time of cholera !!

This is the third time that i am reading this book. I read it first in adolescence in malayalam. I re-read after a few years again in English. Now after a whole decade i am re-reading it now. any why ? Because i belive that this book is one that grows with you over years !! (well, thats true of most classics.. i think thats why they are called classics.)

In my teenage when i read it, what i found in it were the beautiful or rather erotic details of all the love affairs. Then Slowly it grew with me. Then next time i could see the beauty of Love. The meaninglessness of love-less relationships. And then when i read it now. It gives me a better pictre it all.. all over again. Making me realise that its not just love(or rather lust,) there are lot of other important things in life. Which is undervalued by most of us. Like for eg. the love of your mother, which is actually the sweetest form of of love - unconditional - undemanding - the most understanding- kind of love.

Marquez is the most prolific of writer when it comes to human relationship and love. Although The story in "love in the time of cholera" revolves around the minds of f. Ariza and F. Daza. Who met each other and fell in love at a very early age. Ariza continues to love Daza till his death and may be he would continue to do so even after death. Daza instead refuses ariza's love and goes on to marry Dr.Urbino. Urbino was a man of great repute in the society.The chain of love encounters in the story reveals itself strating with Ariza's love to Daza, and it continues its thread of everlasting and spawning its threads all over.. his The story of love continues to the most ild avenues. But ofcurse he always remembes Daza would wait for her footsteps and voice every moment of his life.

Daza on other hand gets lost in domesticated version of similer feelings..! and leads a loveless life that she realises a little too late in her life.After the death of urbino Arizo come back to her life unintrusive like wind that passes by.

After i finished reading it i laid down for sometime thinking about my own life... What better insights can a book give a reader than this.

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Shantaram

shantaram is about an australian in exile, who escapes to india or rather bombay. this is a real story from author Gregory david roberts.

He comes to india with his forged passport. Makes friends in india. Slowly he starts to love india and mumbai. he learns Hindi and Marathi. Works as a doctor in zoppdapatti slum in bombay.
a tryst one of the sex racket takes him to the jail.

He returns to join the Bombay mafia, and establishes good relations with the gang member and don. He goes to afganistan with the gang members. and losses a lot of the gang members there - including the Don himself.

The most striking factor about this book is that it hits a style of narration and never lets go of it. the real like narration adds to the beauty of the book. spread over 950 pages - reading this book is quite a task. but for the beauty, unpartial understanding and acceptance by the author.

Most foreigners find it very difficult to understand the indian mind-set. but the author is at ease. mostly because of the openness of his mind and readiness to accept.

He appreciates it all. he starts to fall in love with this country from the very sight.

yes! I Absolutely loved this book.