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Isobel Armstrong, Professor of Literature at Birkbeck College, London University, believes that Mukherjee's writing shows a real understanding of personality, of
how characters change and develop..
| "You seem to feel when you come into a Mukherjee novel, a kind of flurry and complexity in the writing. It's rapid, darting, intense and energetic.
Mukherjee is fascinated by people who are constantly on the move, who have to live a life in transit, who have to destroy their former identities in other countries in order to live fully in another. It's an astonishingly ruthless understanding of the personality - that the personality has to travel light and move across countries and assimilate other country's culture and ideas and practices - like putting on another skin."
Isobel Armstrong |
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