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A review by bookishpip
Other Names for Love by Taymour Soomro
Did not finish book. Stopped at 82%.
It’s really rare that I don’t manage to finish a book, and I’m sad to have eventually put this down for the foreseeable. Perhaps I will come back to it one day.
The premise of this is amazing - the exploration of a turbulent and complex father-son relationship in rural Pakistan - and I had such high hopes for this. However, I found the execution of this book really frustrating. Perhaps it’s because I was reading it on kindle, but the abrupt changes between perspectives of father and son were jarring and did not feel smoothly executed. I felt like I was struggling to follow the narrative thread and dialogue as it was, without these abrupt changes in perspective.
In the second half of the book, when the time suddenly jumped forward by several years, I tried to persist but eventually had to call it a day. I just don’t think this one was for me!
The premise of this is amazing - the exploration of a turbulent and complex father-son relationship in rural Pakistan - and I had such high hopes for this. However, I found the execution of this book really frustrating. Perhaps it’s because I was reading it on kindle, but the abrupt changes between perspectives of father and son were jarring and did not feel smoothly executed. I felt like I was struggling to follow the narrative thread and dialogue as it was, without these abrupt changes in perspective.
In the second half of the book, when the time suddenly jumped forward by several years, I tried to persist but eventually had to call it a day. I just don’t think this one was for me!