Book: Chinnery's Hotel âAmongst the best works of fiction that I have read in many yearsââKhushwant Singh âLikely to bring a tear to the most cynical eyeââTimes Literary Supplement After spending nearly four uneasy decades in her ancestral England and accompanied by her dead sisterâs daughter Camilla, Grace returns to the cantonment township of Mhow, where she had spent a much-cosseted childhood and youth in her parentsâ establishment called Chinneryâs Hotel. The bleak post-War life in London had fed Graceâs nostalgia for her childhood home. However, she discovers that Mhow has not remained immune to the profound and often corrosive changes that a new nation in the making has undergone. Chinneryâs Hotel has changed, too, and in its garden gone to seed history and rumour continue to intersect long after its guests have checked out, never to return. Through a subtle interweaving of past and present, the overlapping narrative of Chinneryâs Hotel traverses two continents and three historical periods. Skilfully crafted, it gives a vivid picture of the British Raj and the predicament of Anglo-Indians. âIt belongs to the tradition established by E.M. Forster who would surely have given it his warm approvalââFrank Kermode âBirjĂ©patilâs loving, ironic gaze poignantly conjures up what Milton calls âa long dayâs dying to augment our painâââStephen Greenblatt
Details of Book: Chinnery's Hotel Book: Chinnery's Hotel
Author: Jaysinh Birjepatil
ISBN: 0143064762
ISBN-13: 9780143064763
, 978-0143064763
Publishing Date: 01-jan-2009
Publisher: Penguin Books India (penguin)
Number of Pages: 276