The Two Krishnas (Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender and Intersex)
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 193683300X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Faced with the potential of losing faith in Rahul, divine intervention, and family, she is forced to confront painful truths about the past and the duality in God and husband.. At the center of the novel is Pooja Kapoor, a betrayed wife and mother who is forced to question her faith and marriage when she discovers her banker husband, Rahul, has fallen in love with a young, male Muslim illegal immigrant who happens to be their son's age. In the tradition of A Fine Balance and The Namesake, The Two Krishnas is a sensual and searing look at infidelity and the nature of desire and faith
b00k rEngaging & Engrossing I'll be frank and tell you guys that I was quite apprehensive about picking up this book. It is mainly because I have very little experience with LGBT literature. Oh of course I have read fiction novels where a supporting character was Gay or Lesbian, but never the protagonist. But so far my short experience in book blogging community has taught me to pick up new things with an open mind so as to enjoy and explore wider genres. So I agreed and man, am I glad now that I picked this one up!The story explores mainly the life and journey of its protagonists - Pooja, Rahul and Atif. Rahul and Pooja hail from Kenya and they have a certain. viEngaging & Engrossing I'll be frank and tell you guys that I was quite apprehensive about picking up this book. It is mainly because I have very little experience with LGBT literature. Oh of course I have read fiction novels where a supporting character was Gay or Lesbian, but never the protagonist. But so far my short experience in book blogging community has taught me to pick up new things with an open mind so as to enjoy and explore wider genres. So I agreed and man, am I glad now that I picked this one up!The story explores mainly the life and journey of its protagonists - Pooja, Rahul and Atif. Rahul and Pooja hail from Kenya and they have a certain. ws said Engaging & Engrossing. I'll be frank and tell you guys that I was quite apprehensive about picking up this book. It is mainly because I have very little experience with LGBT literature. Oh of course I have read fiction novels where a supporting character was Gay or Lesbian, but never the protagonist. But so far my short experience in book blogging community has taught me to pick up new things with an open mind so as to enjoy and explore wider genres. So I agreed and man, am I glad now that I picked this one up!The story explores mainly the life and journey of its protagonists - Pooja, Rahul and Atif. Rahul and Pooja hail from Kenya and they have a certain. LotusLily said Was for my reading group. I bought this book because it was for my book club group and while the writing is okay I found the book extremely not even a third of the way into Part II! I just think it could have been written better and the characters better defined and explored and the plot better written!. JJCuriel said A Triumph of the Heart. While Dhalla's freshman novel Ode to Lata remains an impressive debut effort it was without a doubt the leadoff to this emotionally pungent story of love and desire, passion, and secrets. Every character created by Dhalla in this mesmerizing and tragic novel plays a key element in the construction of the main story line between Pooja, the insufferably loyal wife whose greatest passion in life is to adulate her Rahul, a husband who is tormented by the counterfeit life he constructed out of societal fear and the life he undoubtedly was meant to live, and Ajay - the doomed son who will unfairly inherit the catastrophic consequences of
Not only is his story one which defies the reader to pause before the complex story plays out, but it also informs us of the myriad aspects of immigration and the sense of being dispossessed. We should be hearing a lot more about him in the coming months and years.” Good Reads.As with Ode to Lata, his (semi) autobiographical debut novel about a young Hindu man coming to terms with being gay, out Indian author, Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla continues to write about provocative subject matters.” - Advocate MagazineWorlds clash and lives are destroyed(Dhalla) wrote this book because he wanted to expose the catastrophes people create when they lie to themselves as well a