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A review by heathermollauthor
الشيف by Jaspreet Singh
2.0
I could barely get through this book. It's written in a style that some would call lyrical, but for me it's too slow-paced and convoluted.
I just couldn't plod my way through and it felt like a chore to read through 250 pages.
I never got a good feel for the narrator's personality as we skipped through perspective and time. He doesn't engage me and I can't relate to him in any way. In the end, I didn't care about him, his dying, his relationships, his food, nothing at all.
At the end of the book I understand Kashmir and its occupation no better, I understand Kip's personality and his relationships with women no better, and the relationship between food and life seemed shallow and ill-formed connection.
I just couldn't plod my way through and it felt like a chore to read through 250 pages.
I never got a good feel for the narrator's personality as we skipped through perspective and time. He doesn't engage me and I can't relate to him in any way. In the end, I didn't care about him, his dying, his relationships, his food, nothing at all.
At the end of the book I understand Kashmir and its occupation no better, I understand Kip's personality and his relationships with women no better, and the relationship between food and life seemed shallow and ill-formed connection.