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ClareR (5879 KP) rated Loot in Books

Apr 14, 2024  
Loot
Loot
Tania James | 2024 | Fiction & Poetry
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An immersive historical fiction novel set in India. Loot by Tania James begins in Mysore in the 1790s, and a young woodcarver called Abbas is summoned to the palace of Tipu Sultan to help a French clockmaker, Lucien du Leze build a clockwork tiger.

And so starts a series of events that will see the end of Tipu Sultans reign, Abbas’ journey to France and his subsequent quest to find and recover the tiger for himself. It’s a tale full of adventure, danger and romance. I really enjoyed it!
  
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David McK (3562 KP) rated Nautilus in TV

Jan 6, 2025  
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Nautilus
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Jules Verne, "20,000 leagues under the sea"

I've read it (it was slow).

I never realised until I heard somebody say as such in this, that Nemo is Latin for nobody.

Anyway, this is a 10-part adventure/drama miniseries that follows the crew of the Nautilus from before the Jules Verne story, in which Nemo is already an established character, from the creation of the Nautilus itself by prisoners of the East India Mercantile Company (of which Nemo is one), it's theft by the same and the chase across the oceans that follows.
  
A State of Freedom
A State of Freedom
Neel Mukherjee | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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A series of interconnecting stories.
I very much like books set in Asia, and in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in particular. The stories they tell are far from the world that I live in, and I like to think that I'm going to learn something about those worlds and peoples.
This novel follows the lives of multiple people who are all connected in some way (even the first person we meet is connected, albeit in a very tenuous way). The stories are fascinating: from the privileged son of a couple who live in Calcutta who is visiting from London for a month, to the young girl (a child) who is sent to work in other people's houses and is treated like a slave in one of the houses she works in. I won't say any more about the stories of these people, but I loved where their stories led them, no matter how uncomfortable it was for me to read.
The writing is beautifully descriptive: it gave a feel for the sights, sounds and smells of where these people lived. It described the caste/ class system of India, the slums and the places where the better off lived. I really enjoyed this book, it really is well worth reading.
  
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