The book has interconnected stories of several women characters located in Jaipur and JapanKintsugi is not a novel of rich ideas, it’s not a grand drama, doesn’t attempt any stylistic experiment, and yet managed to hold me till the very end.
Impressed by Anukrti Upadhyay’s previous novella Daura, a layered narrative in multiple and often baffling voices, I had high expectations on Kintsugi.
It begins at a languid pace and by the end of the first chapter, which is 60 pages, I had resigned myself to a minor disappointment. But the new novel by the bilingual writer gradually began to gather itself. The interconnected stories of several women characters located in Jaipur and Japan, stories told plainly with little froth touched some subtle corners within. Each chapter narrated from a different perspective conveys some fundamental dilemmas these women face:
when things are falling…
