Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Ordinary Magic

Always a challenge to read the book after you’ve seen the movie. The movie version reviewed earlier this year on a sister blog was a Canadian CBC Production set in Paris on the Grand in Ontario. The book similarly begins in and around Madras, India but takes Ganesh to America instead. Whereas a movie shows you a book tells you and the narrative adds nuances one may have missed. And one catches the details changed for simplicity or to save time and improve pacing in the movie setting.

The resolution, when it comes, happens quickly and leaves the reader hanging. Most people’s lives do not have happily ever after fairytale endings.

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