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Book review: Gurnaik Johal’s Saraswati a Cubist portrait of modern, global India
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Saraswati by British-Indian author Gurnaik Johal tells of seven members of a Punjabi family spread across the globe during a time of Hindu fundamentalist resurgence in India.
PHOTOS: ROBIN CHRISTIAN, SERPENT'S TAIL
By Gurnaik Johal
Fiction/Serpent’s Tail/Paperback/374 pages/$32.95
There are shades of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) and Richard Powers’ The Overstory (2018) in this panorama of interconnected tales – of seven members of a Punjabi family, distantly related, spread across the globe during a time of Hindu fundamentalist resurgence in India.
