Annoyance

The Inheritance of Loss, written by Kiran Desai, has already proven itself to be a novel that needs to be read with depth, analysis, focus, and lots of patience. Desai uses her own metaphorical phrases and figurative language that can often be difficult to grasp or frustrating to read. She uses it when describing something as simple as fog, or an emotion that doesn't necessarily need such a lengthy description. I find myself struggling constantly when trying to understand what Desai is trying to narrate or describe. Occasionally when she does use her figurative explanations and large overwhelming vocabulary, the meaning is almost lost, it's like reading a dictionary! I get thwarted by her inability to simply get to the point like McCarthy does. I love analyzing meanings and broadening my vocabulary, but Desai tends to drive me insane. For instance, "...there was report of dissatisfaction in the hills, gathering insurgency, men and guns." 

No idea what that said? Me neither! And I'm actually reading the book!

I feel like I'm trying to decode Sanskrit when I'm reading this! That sentence literally had absolutely nothing to do with the novel. Not that I have a very good idea of what's going on in the novel because I feel like I'm trying to read Vietnamese. Nothing makes sense! Her lack of simplicity and hatred of understandable and relatable language and descriptions, is making me unable to perform my duties as a reader. Desai better shape up and start making sense, otherwise I WILL go completely insane.

I wish I could say more about this book, but I quite honestly can't. It hardly makes sense to me at all. But what I have pulled together is that, the characters live somewhere near the Nepalese and Indian border and some sort of terrorism is taking place. I can't identify the time setting, but it's getting there. I also know that the main character Sai, used to be/is in love with a math tutor named Gyan. I don't know what happens/happened to him, but she thinks about him frequently. 

Hopefully the novel will kick off soon; most novel's begin slow (but for one hundred pages?). Also, I'm hoping that the random fringes of memories floating around in Sai's head throughout the novel will begin to pull together and form a solid and stable plot. 

I'm sorry for bad blog, but I can't even smell a theme. ( :[ )

I blame The Grove Press.