The House of Blue Mangoes, (Paperback)

from julsitos2

Heady and exotic. You can smell the seasalt as you read the first chapters and the fragrance of the tea bushes on the last chapters.

from Robert0333

The House of Blue Mangos is a well told story of three generations of the "Dorai" family in South India, mostly in the modern day state of Tamil Nadu, but under the British Raj, the Madras Presidency. Davidar has a strong command of the sights, sounds, tastes and even smells of South India, and d...

from karenmerguerian

It's a good long summer-reading type of book and there's some brushes with history and with Indian culture: food, religion, architecture. But somehow the characters were not compelling to me until I got to Kannan and that wasn't until more than halfway through the book. A huge obstacle for me was...