The Lowland (Vintage Contemporaries)

it is not a bad book but it is a desolate book, the book inspires despair and sadness, agonizing is its characters life. They make me feel bad for them and in the long run it makes me feel bad for the author too. But there is an inconsistency about its characters as if they all suffer from an acute bipolar personality disorder. They arbitrarily shows characteristics that they were till then unaware of. The lead female character even turns lesbian for a couple of pages and then goes of. Frankly was it needed? No. the book can do without it. Then there is a sense of melancholy that haunts its characters as if they are unable and unwilling to find happiness. their lives just turns from badb to worse and keep going , of course that is till that last chapter where a very happy ending is stitched in with a gross and grotesque stitch.

Its an okay read, a fair read unarguably but if you plan to give this book a miss I am pretty sure you will not be missing much.

The story is slow-moving and not terribly exciting, but it really touches you in a deep way. That people live with so much sadness is always surprising to me and leaves me haunted for days after I finish a book like this. It's well written and well told.