Reviews for Bubble gum & chalk dust

The average rating for Bubble gum & chalk dust based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-11-07 00:00:00 Hursell Dolly Korean Shijo poetry is a delight; full of humor,joy and wonder at the mysteries of life.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-20 00:00:00 Albert Tollas 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.