The Sitar edition by Rebecca Idris Literature Fiction eBooks
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From the bowels of middle-class England, bona fide Brit Muslim lesbian Jaya Chakarbatti belies her mild-mannerisms and leads her group of Lassi Lesbians from their urban Midland terraced houses, to the smelly back alleys of London's gay Soho, to seek out other Gaysians. Through the jungle of Bollywood drag queens, unrequited clumsy love, and stark choices between the Quran or The Pink Paper, the group of girls take a snap shot of modern, urban Britain amidst riots, religious tensions, and social discontent, before ending up somehow in the heat of sweaty, uncomfortably straight but shamelessly camp Bangladesh.
The Sitar edition by Rebecca Idris Literature Fiction eBooks
Not being British, or Muslim, or of Middle Eastern descent, I struggled with my ignorance of some of the characters' experiences, but I was glad to read them, because they made me think and strive to understand. This was a great book. The plot is largely character driven, but it doesn't lack for conflict. Lack of external action did hamper my reading of it somewhere around the middle, but I'm glad that I continued reading. The writing is beautiful, though as mentioned, the style is rather abrupt at times. And the ending was heartbreaking and perfect, in my opinion. This is a book that has a lot to say. I would heartily recommend it.Product details
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The Sitar edition by Rebecca Idris Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
But not for the faint-hearted. A poignant, beautifully-written look at race, culture, sexuality, poverty, social marginalisation and love. Full review here https//thereaderinthetower.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/the-sitar-rebecca-idris/
I can't help but feel I wasn't the target audience for this book. Which kinda made reading it feel like trespassing. And I happen to count myself amongst the “countless nonce's intellectually materbat[ing] about post-colonialism and identity crises and multiculturalism and diasporas, in their middle-class drone and painfully flowery academic theses” p.19. I mean, I am a post-colonial scholar IRL, and I grew up in South London and loved gup shup with mates from school before seeing them wipe off their eyeliner and lowering their skirt before getting home, blushing furiously when they bumped into yet another 'Aunty-Ji' in the paper shop or park. But this book was very much for that second-generation community, and not for the likes of me.
As anyone who follows my twitter or has read my reviews before will know, I'm no stranger to the gay scene either. But The Sitar's 'Gay-sian' population was also segregated from the white gay scene, with all of the women in it fatally accepting that one day they will give up same sex relationships to be good wives and daughters. Even in her description of the rite-of-passage moment of 'getting one's Hoosh' Idris makes it clear that she will not define the term, as it would lose it's power if translated, so basically, if you don't know what it means already, then this book is not for you. So it's really hard to write a review of it, as I feel hugely like a trespasser.
As a bisexual woman, the fate of these vibrant young woman, resigned to marry men, was proper heartbreaking. I was in tears at the end and the fate of Jaya. And 'Kully's was almost Woolfian in it's quiet pathos, almost as if she slipped away with the tide.
The characters in this book are each completely isolated. Despite the constant social commentary and fond British-Asian pop culture references, there is no solidarity to be found in this book. Not even Strategic Essentialism in the face of an almost-terror-attack. Ruby hates Indians, the white supremacist is ambivalent about them, the Bangladeshi lesbian is alienated from the Bengali lesbian, the single-minded ferver of the jihadis is halted in the face of someone they actually know.
This seems to be a novel of slow death; the suffocation of the self in a restrictive culture. Or maybe I'm well off, as unlike God of Small Things or Midnight's Children or Brick Lane, this British-Asian novel is not about the human experience as well as specifically the post-colonial one. Nor it is a book about being gay (and indeed the human experience essentialism many novels with this subject espouse). The Sitar, rather, made me as a reader feel as alienated from the characters and culture as they were from each other. Or maybe that was the point.
Rating 7/10 don't read it hoping for East is East.
Reviewed by Vikki Heaven @ Escapology Reviews
Thank goodness I didn't pay for this. Staccato style; all over the place; too hard to follow; amateurish at best; deleted it.
What a great read, this is a good insight in to the hardships of being GAY in different cultures as well as religions.
I finished this novel within a week, Rebecca's writing is truly orgasmic and riveting. It's about a minority within a minority - the gaysian community - the lassi lesbians. Her descriptive writing is spot on, it's like you can feel the grit of B'ham and the intensity of the of all characters. She has a knack for metaphors too, which I personally like in my novels because it really takes you on the character's path and into the character's frame of mind.
I spent most of the time trying to understand what was going on in this book. I can't recommend this to anyone but try it, if you don't have to skip pages, you might like it.
Not being British, or Muslim, or of Middle Eastern descent, I struggled with my ignorance of some of the characters' experiences, but I was glad to read them, because they made me think and strive to understand. This was a great book. The plot is largely character driven, but it doesn't lack for conflict. Lack of external action did hamper my reading of it somewhere around the middle, but I'm glad that I continued reading. The writing is beautiful, though as mentioned, the style is rather abrupt at times. And the ending was heartbreaking and perfect, in my opinion. This is a book that has a lot to say. I would heartily recommend it.
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