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This is a wild book of highly autobiographical, essentially religious prose poems. Jorie Graham sees Stephen Berg's work as a strenuous and often dangerous self-witness; an astounding overview of American urban life at the apex and turning point of a major civilization; a probing into memory -- both of the individual and of the race -- at a moment when memory might be the medium that both saves us and finally condemns us; most importantly, it is brilliantly written, brilliantly perceived . . . In reading Berg you will be reading the master of the prose poem.
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Brent Weiner
reviewed Halo on November 20, 2014 Halo
Another book borrowed from my parents, which means I have now read all three of the Anita Desai novels that made the Booker shortlist (the others being Clear Light of Day and Fasting, Feasting).
The protagonist Deven works as a Hindi teacher in Mirpore, a small town near Delhi, who aspires to be an Urdu poet. His life is unrewarding, but he is offered a form of escape by a former college friend Murad, who runs an Urdu magazine in Delhi and enlists Deven's help to arrange an interview with a great Urdu poet Nur. Nur is now an old man, who drinks too much and spends much of his life hosting sycophants and hangers-on, and Deven's attempts to get him to remember his poetry are largely frustrated, giving the book a tragicomic tone.
Another enjoyable read, but for me Clear Light of Day is still the best of the three.
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